{"id":87885,"date":"2019-04-09T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/09\/erdogans-akp-party-seeks-rerun-of-istanbul-mayoral-election\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:43:26","slug":"erdogans-akp-party-seeks-rerun-of-istanbul-mayoral-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87885","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan&#039;s AKP party seeks rerun of Istanbul mayoral election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s ruling party claims vote marred by \u2018irregularities\u2019 and \u2018organised crimes\u2019Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) has said it will demand a rerun of Istanbul\u2019s disputed mayoral election, in the most definitive sign yet that the president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, is unwilling to accept a loss in the city where his political career began.Local elections across Turkey on 31 March delivered shock initial results that appeared to show the AKP had narrowly lost control of Istanbul and the capital, Ankara, loosening Islamist control of Turkey\u2019s two most important cities for the first time in 25 years. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/09\/turkey-erdogan-akp-party-seeks-rerun-of-istanbul-mayoral-election\" target=\"_blank\">Erdo\u011fan&#039;s AKP party seeks rerun of Istanbul mayoral election<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s ruling party claims vote marred by \u2018irregularities\u2019 and \u2018organised crimes\u2019Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) has said it will demand a rerun of Istanbul\u2019s disputed mayoral election, in the most definitive sign yet that the president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, is unwilling to accept a loss in the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}