On Monday 24 June, the Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, welcomed the victory of Ekrem Imamoglu, from the Turkish CHP opposition, in the Istanbul City Hall after a new election.
On 6 May, the Turkish Supreme Electoral Council ordered new municipal elections to be held in Istanbul, following an extraordinary appeal by President Recep Tayyip's party Erdoğan (AKP), challenging the initially certified election result. This cancellation was denounced by the EU and the...