{"id":4771,"date":"2019-06-24T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2019-06-24T21:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:10:20","slug":"istanbuls-election-what-does-erdogans-loss-mean-for-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/06\/24\/istanbuls-election-what-does-erdogans-loss-mean-for-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL\u2019S ELECTION: WHAT DOES ERDOGAN\u2019S LOSS MEAN FOR TURKEY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4772\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"963\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu-.jpg 963w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu--768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu--560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu--260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/ekrem-imamoglu--160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: CFR<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/expert\/steven-cook\">Steven A. Cook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ekrem Imamoglu\u2019s stunning victory in the rerun of Istanbul\u2019s mayoral election marks a new low for Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his long-ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). But don\u2019t expect the president to take the drubbing sitting down.<\/p>\n<p>The AKP went to the trouble of forcing Turkey\u2019s Supreme Election Commission to nullify the results of Istanbul\u2019s mayoral election in April because Erdogan did not like the outcome: Imamoglu, of the Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP), beating the AKP\u2019s Binali Yildirim, a former prime minister. In the rerun on Sunday, Imamoglu won once again, but by a far larger margin\u2014as much as eight hundred thousand votes, by some estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/article\/istanbuls-election-what-does-erdogans-loss-mean-turkey?utm_medium=social_owned&amp;utm_content=062419&amp;utm_source=tw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CFR By Steven A. Cook Ekrem Imamoglu\u2019s stunning victory in the rerun of Istanbul\u2019s mayoral election marks a new low for Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his long-ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). But don\u2019t expect the president to take the drubbing sitting down. The AKP went to the trouble of forcing Turkey\u2019s Supreme Election&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/06\/24\/istanbuls-election-what-does-erdogans-loss-mean-for-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISTANBUL\u2019S ELECTION: WHAT DOES ERDOGAN\u2019S LOSS MEAN FOR TURKEY?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}