Some 15 Million Voted in Sunday’s Symbolic Primary Organized by Turkey’s Main Opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in A Mass Show of Support for Istanbul’s Newly Deposed Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, The Municipality Said.
“Out of A Total of 15 Million Votes, 13,211,000 (Note-Party Members) Are Solidarity Votes,” The Municipality Said of the Long-Planned Primary Imamoglu Was to have been named
Observers Said it was the Loming Primary That Triggered the Move Against Imamoglu, Widly O as the Only Politian Capable of Challenging Presentant Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Throughout the day, voters flocked to ballot boxes in 81 Cities After the CHP OpenSed Up The Poll Beyond Its 1.7 Million Party Members to Anone Who Wanted to PartiPate.
PEOPLE Turned out in SUCH LARGE NUMBERS THAT VOTING WAS EXTRA THREE-A-A-HALF HOURS.
Imamoglu Was Detained Early on Wednesday, Sparking Mass Protests That Have Spread Across Turkey. The Ballot Toook Place as an Istanbul Court Formal Formalized Rehber in A Corruption Probe.
Several Hours Later, The interior ministry suspended him as mayor as he was a prison on the megacity’s western outskirts.
© Agency France-Presse
