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BBC Turkey Correspondent. Previously based in Athens and Belgrade. Heart belongs to a Portuguese. All views my own.

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    14 hours ago

    According to this report (from before the election), Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has debts of 22 billion liras (trebled since 2014). Last year it had a deficit of 3.7 billion liras.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Imamoglu shows photo of winning in 1994, CHP candidate holding Erdogan’s hand in celebration of democracy. We’re in 2019 now. That’s how it should be done.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Imamoglu: give to us. We have not a minute to lose. This is not the end of the world. 16million people here are happy. I see happiness in people’s eyes. Government’s attitude is unethical, accusing people of being thieves. Finalise this process. It’s urgent.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Imamoglu: there were some errors in vote tallies. We have examples of where mistakes made against us. It’s obvious it doesn’t change result. Ballot box watchers acted against invalid votes on election night. If they’re now acting under political pressure, it’s wrong.

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    Imamoglu: Government is now using ways to delete files they haven’t managed to delete. Municipal staff are being oppressed. If they’re being asked by government to take political actions, my message is ignore them.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    candidate ⁦⁩: and others have constantly said ’s electoral system is fair. They’re now acting like they’ve lost their toys. 16 million people shouldn’t be victims of their internal conflicts. It’s a shame, disrespectful.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    So maybe the strategy is: grudgingly accept the results but by planting seed of doubt in AKP minds, deprive Imamoglu and Yavas of legitimacy, at least from AKP voters, for their entire mandate. That, along with potentially starving cities of cash, would be seen as AKP success.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    ’s government is arguably shooting itself in foot by contesting these elections as it challenges their claim that electoral process here is fair and brings their disputed results in Ankara 2014 &referendum 2017 back into focus. But I’m not sure that’s their thought process

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  9. 3 hours ago

    Shame shame shame.

    Homosexuality has always been illegal in Brunei but today the tiny South-east Asian country will introduce strict new Islamic laws that makes gay sex an offence punishable by stoning to death.
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    16 hours ago

    Trump just said "my father is German, was German. Born in a very wonderful place in Germany." Fred Trump was born in New York.

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    18 hours ago

    This looks suspiciously like a drug deal outside Number 10.

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  12. 4 hours ago

    And another one. Editor of another pro-government rag Yeni Safak says the elections must be repeated because PKK and Gulenists have carried out a coup. Tactic: sew the seed of doubt in people’s minds and then...

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  13. 4 hours ago

    It was only a matter of time. Pro-government papers now using the magic word “coup” to describe election results, which AKP is disputing.

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    17 hours ago

    Pro-government Turkish think-tank SETA describes the political opposition as being run "by the mind of the Gülenists and the logistics of the PKK"

    Aneliz: “Maalesef CHP’nin başını çektiği ittifak FETÖ aklı, PKK lojistiği ile yönetiliyor.” *Bağımsız düşünce kuruluşu* %38 oy almış bir ittifakı hedef gösteriyor.…
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  15. 17 hours ago

    The congrats from abroad after ’s local elections continue. Erdogan receives it from leaders including Azerbaijan, Iran, Kosovo, Russia; the winners in Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir receive it from the mayor of Paris.

    Türkiye’nin ve özellikle , ve ’in çoğulcu demokrasiye, adalete ve temel hak ve özgürlüklere inanan yeni Belediye Başkanlarını kutluyoruz. ’in dostluğundan şüpheniz olmasın. 🇹🇷
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  16. 23 hours ago

    In case you thought Brexit couldn’t get any more bizarre, the Independent went ahead and wrote this article.

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    Jamal fiancée Hatice ⁦tells she can't go back to having a normal life:"My story with Jamal never reached its end... I have this pain in my heart.. Life will never be the same for me." full interview➡️

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    Apr 1

    This CNN live poll is not going so well for the UK

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    Apr 2

    "A Twitter account has been opened allegedly by the infamous Bosphorus Global and will share the alleged electoral fraud. Sabah columnist, Hilal Kaplan, who falsely claimed that the votes would be counted again, was the first person to share the account."

    "Pelikan Yalısı" Bosphorus Global'in çalışması olduğu iddia edilen ve seçimdeki sözde hileleri paylaşacağını belirten bir Twitter hesabı açıldı. Sayfayı ilk olarak, oyların yeniden sayılacağını iddia edip devlet tarafından yalanlanan…
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    Apr 2

    Headline of Turkish newspaper Takvim today: election results are great, it’s just perfidious Western media which say otherwise.

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