On Monday evening, 6 May, the EU and the Council of Europe denounced the decisions of the Turkish Supreme Electoral Council to order new municipal elections in Istanbul, and to declare mayors and municipal councillors elected ineligible in the south-east of the country.
The cancellation of the 31 March elections in Istanbul follows an extraordinary appeal by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party, AKP, challenging the initially certified election result. This one was won by Ekrem...