The Heat: Turkey election controversy
Anand Naidoo@anandnaidoo
Published June 20, 2019 at 6:01 PM
Turkey’s top electoral body has annulled the results of the March 31 election for mayor of Istanbul, ordering a re-vote for this weekend.
The move followed complaints of voting irregularities from the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after opposition candidate Ekrem Imanoglu appeared to score a narrow victory over the president’s candidate Binali Yildirim. The controversial decision to rerun the election has increased concerns over democracy and the rule of law in Turkey.
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