Political assessments over last week’s local elections are still underway with detailed analysis on who won where and who lost why.
The local elections are over, with the results having been finalized in almost all constituencies, except for Istanbul. Initial results have shown that the Nation Alliance’s candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu was ahead of the People Alliance’s Binali Yıldırım with a minor difference, ending a 25-year rule of Turkey’s largest city by AKP mayors.
The local elections are over, although the announcement of the final results will take some time because of the appeal processes launched by the political parties in the constituencies they lost.
When this column was penned late Sunday, the counting process in many constituencies was still underway.
A five-year period of election marathons that have observed two presidential, three parliamentary and two local elections, as well as one very important referendum, will end on Sunday, launching a long election-free period until June 2023.
United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seem to have a very unique and close relationship which work for both men in a win-win understanding.
March 22 observed yet another painful day for the Turkish Lira, which lost around five percent against the U.S. dollar in around less than six hours, reviving bad memories from August last year when a diplomatic crisis with the United States resulted in serious economic turbulence in Turkey.
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As predicted, political strain ahead of the March 31 local elections is in an unprecedentedly constant escalation with harsh quarrels and astounding accusations between the opposition and ruling party’s alliances. For many reasons, one can cite the upcoming elections as the tensest polls in the near history of Turkey, even though voters will merely choose the country’s local leaders.
