Erdogan said on Monday the local elections were marred by 'organised crime’ at ballot boxes in Istanbul, raising the possibility of re-running a March 31 vote in the city that handed a slim majority
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint news conference with Vladimir Putin following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2019.Turkey’s High Election Board has rejected a request by President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party to recount all votes in 31 Istanbul districts, a board member said on Tuesday, but the party vowed to challenge the decision.
AK Party Deputy Chairman Ali Ihsan Yavuz subsequently said his party would challenge the decision to reject a recount. Police in Istanbul were conducting checks on Tuesday morning on whether some voters registered at addresses in Buyukcekmece were actually resident there, a police spokesman said. He said there was no criminal investigation.
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