site.btaWind of Change Marks Turkiye's Local Elections: Opposition Prevails

Hundreds of thousands of Istanbul residents celebrated until dawn the victory of the main opposition Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP) in the March 31 local elections in Turkiye. The streets around the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality building in the Sarachane district were filled with people of all ages. With red flags and posters of [founder of Republic of Turkiye Kemal] Ataturk, the people, among whom the young were predominant, were hugging, singing and dancing with car horns honking all around.