{"id":63894,"date":"2019-06-22T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=63894"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:09:23","slug":"all-eyes-on-june-23-istanbul-revote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/all-eyes-on-june-23-istanbul-revote\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on June 23 Istanbul revote"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Millions of Istanbulites will pour to the ballot box on June 23, Sunday, to elect their city&#8217;s mayor for the next five years in a re-run local poll.<\/h2>\n<p>Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate of the opposition Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP), and Binali Yildirim of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, will vie to run the metropolitan municipality of Turkey&#8217;s most populous city after a previous vote on March 31 was annulled by the country&#8217;s top election council last month.<\/p>\n<p>YSK chief Sadi Guven said all eligible voters who cast their ballots in the March 31 poll would be able to do so again in a re-do vote for Istanbul\u2019s metropolitan mayor.<\/p>\n<p>However, 44,852 voters were removed from the electoral lists due to conviction, military service or death.<\/p>\n<p>The YSK announced the total number of voters would be 10,560,963 for the June 23 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will go to 31,342 ballot boxes in 39 districts, according to the YSK.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Istanbulites will pour to the ballot box on June 23, Sunday, to elect their city&#8217;s mayor for the next five years in a re-run local poll. Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate of the opposition Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP), and Binali Yildirim of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, will vie to run the metropolitan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,895,174,194,1165,188],"tags":[17657,78483,78482],"class_list":["post-63894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-life","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-life","category-turkey-politics","tag-binali-yildirim","tag-ekrem-imamoglu","tag-istanbul-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}