Experts Weigh in on Results of Turkey's Local Elections
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- By VOA Turkish
Initial vote counts indicate that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP party lost control of multiple major cities in Turkey in local elections Sunday. Erdogan is disputing the results in Ankara and Istanbul, but many analysts say the vote is clearly a setback for the powerful ruler. VOA's Turkish Service spoke with political analysts about what the results mean, in this report narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.