{"id":50263,"date":"2024-04-01T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50263"},"modified":"2024-04-01T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:01:40","slug":"erdogan-sees-turning-point-for-turkey-after-poll-drubbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50263","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan sees &#8216;turning point&#8217; for Turkey after poll drubbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turkey was at a &#8220;turning point&#8221; Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after the opposition fighting his two-decade rule swept municipal elections in Istanbul, the country&#8217;s emblematic megapolis, and other major cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Near-final results showed the main opposition Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP) wresting the main cities and Anatolian provinces that were strongholds for Erdogan&#8217;s Islamic conservative AKP party.<\/p>\n<p>Top urban centres Istanbul, capital Ankara, Adana, Bursa and Antalya were among municipalities to elect CHP mayors Sunday, less than a year after the knockback of a failed presidential challenge last May.<\/p>\n<p>Observers called it Erdogan&#8217;s worst election defeat since his party took power in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Many blamed inflation running at 67 percent and a crashing devaluation of the lira currency over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-government dailies Hurriyet and Yeni Safah on Monday highlighted the voters&#8217; &#8220;message&#8221; to incumbents.<\/p>\n<p>The result &#8220;can only be explained by the economy,&#8221; wrote Abdulkadir Selvi, a commentator for pro-government daily Hurriyet seen as close to the Erdogan camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey was at a &#8220;turning point&#8221; Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after the opposition fighting his two-decade rule swept municipal elections in Istanbul, the country&#8217;s emblematic megapolis, and other major cities. Near-final results showed the main opposition Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP) wresting the main cities and Anatolian provinces that were strongholds for Erdogan&#8217;s Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[999],"class_list":["post-50263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-erdogan-sees-turning-point-for-turkey-after-poll-drubbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}