AKP forced Election Body to cancel legitimate election results. I am not a lawyer but all I observe around and existing analyses demonstrate this decision has no bases. You will see how ridiculous the election council’s justifications are.
Political Islamists do not pretend to respect democracy anymore. Today is the day their pretension ends. The path AKP takes never ends well. I believe AKP leadership accelerated its path toward downfall. I do not know how and in the meantime I do not know how much citizens will suffer. But all signs show it has lost its wisdom. Thus, increasingly ridiculous moves at both domestic and international politics. Hence, the acceleration. Let me pray if I see those days of downfall…
Today's decision to reverse the Istanbul mayoral election is the greatest distortion of democratic elections in Turkey since the country’s first free and fair polls in 1950. Never before has the loser in Turkey refused to recognize the outcome of a major election
— Soner Cagaptay (@SonerCagaptay) May 6, 2019
Citizens protest in CHP dominated neighborhoods:
Şişli’de tencere tava sesleri pic.twitter.com/n5xPBlSfsg
— nevsin mengu (@nevsinmengu) May 6, 2019
Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediye Baskani Ekrem Imamoglu #kozyatagi pic.twitter.com/3bjiEHxiEe
— Şebnem Akyüz (@sebnemakyuz) May 6, 2019
Seems protest marches are forming around Besiktas. Will they be met by teargas and violence? https://t.co/5UD4C9Jias
— Peter Nut (@nipped) May 6, 2019
— Peter Nut (@nipped) May 6, 2019
Bu da Beşiktaş’tan tencere tava sesleri pic.twitter.com/E5SE3CgdDr
— tuğba tekerek (@tugbatekerek) May 6, 2019
Crowds condemning the decion to annul the #Istanbul elections! This is from Besiktas. Similar protests take place in Kadikoy and various other places. #IstanbulElections https://t.co/ht4FMgf1kQ
— Cagil M. Kasapoglu (@CagilKasapoglu) May 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/kaansezyum/status/1125498809860198401
Election body rules in favor of re-run of Istanbul elections
Turkey Orders New Election for Istanbul Mayor, in Setback for Opposition
Erdoğan’s bid to overturn mayoral vote is ‘plain dictatorship’, says CHP party
Turkey’s election body has ordered a rerun of Istanbul’s mayoral election after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party complained about its surprise defeat in the vote, the state news agency reported.
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