The election campaigns before the vote were highly polarizing with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials using hostile rhetoric toward opposition candidates. Election campaigns in Turkey have been highly polarized with officials, especially President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, using hostile rhetoric toward opposition candidates. The co-leader of a pro-Kurdish party has cast her ballot in Istanbul and said her party worked hard in Turkey’s local elections despite government pressures. The leading candidates to be Istanbul’s next mayor have cast their ballots in the key race in Turkey’s local elections. Voters in Turkey are electing mayors for 30 large cities, and a main battleground for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party appears to be in the capital, Ankara.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2019 07:48 UTC