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Turkey local elections: Opposition claims big city wins in blow to Erdogan

Turkey's Republican People’s Party claimed victory in 36 of Turkey's 81 provinces in local elections, according to state-run Anadolu Agency [Ali Unal/AP]

Turkey’s main opposition party has claimed victory in Istanbul and Ankara in local elections, inflicting the biggest defeat on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in more than two decades.

With more than 95 percent of ballot boxes opened in Istanbul on Sunday, Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) said he had defeated the governing AK Party candidate by more than one million votes.

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