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🔊OMER will be covering the 2024 Turkish Local elections LIVE on our liveblog!

🔗 Follow along with us on the live blog at: https://t.co/ruPNBMaMeS

#Seçim2024

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Huge night. Good night for now.

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Erdoğan

"We will fix our mistakes"

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Quite remarkable to hear the President give such a muted speech.

"Unfortunately we did not get the result that we wanted."

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In Hatay, the CHP takes the lead. If this trend continues, it seems that CHP will keep Hatay.

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In Hatay, the race is going to a dead heat. We have re-characterised the race from Lean-AKP to Toss-up.

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Our second flip of the night, we are now projecting that Şanlıurfa is LEAN YRP.

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"The CHP is now the party of all democrats. The CHP is the party of Social Democrats. But it is also a party for which nationalist democrats and Kurdish democrats can also vote for."

A truly historic moment.

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Özgür Özel is speaking:

"Our cities are in safe hands"

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Calls for İYİ Party leader Meral Akşener to resign are becoming louder and louder.

Despite the fact that Akşener nominated candidates all across Turkey, she failed to make much of a dent to all the CHP victories of the night.

[Bilge Yılmaz @ProfBilgeYilmaz]

İYİ Parti Genel Başkanı Sayın Meral Akşener'i istifaya davet ediyorum.

Önümüzdeki genel seçimlerde ülkemizin AK Parti iktidarının kötü ve beceriksiz yönetiminden kurtulması için bugünden çalışmaya başlamalıyız. Bu sonuçlar göstermiştir ki yapacak çok işimiz var, kaybedecek vaktimiz yok.

Bu yönde yapacağım çalışmalara ağırlık verebilmek için İYİ Parti Ekonomi Politikaları Başkanlığı görevimden istifa ediyorum.

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Erdoğan will make a statement at 22.30PM today.

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Mansur Yavaş has built an insurmountable lead. The CHP will hold Ankara.

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It does not seem possible for Murat Kurum to make up the deficit, as İmamoğlu continues to increase his lead. OMER recharacterises Istanbul as CHP-HOLD.

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İmamoğlu surpasses 50% for the first time tonight.

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Our next major change of projection. We no longer think that the Istanbul race is a Tossup. Istanbul is re-characterised as LEAN CHP. #secim2024

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Our first important flip, with the New Welfare candidate surpassing the AKP candidate. #secim2024

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In Ankara, we are shifting our projection from LEAN CHP to LIKELY CHP.

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In Bursa, the CHP is looking to flip the mayoralty. Unfathomable just a few years ago, looking increasingly likely now.

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For the first time since AKP coming to power, it might be fathomable that the AKP might come in second behind the CHP.

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In Urfa, the AKP is ahead by just 762 votes.

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It is a bit too early, but if results look anything like this, this spells complete disaster for the AKP. OMER doubts this is going to be the case, however.