Istanbul's mayoral election upset
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 29 June 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After his party lost the Istanbul mayoral election where does Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, go from here? Mark Lowen considers whether this could be the start of his political decline. Katie Arnold reports from Kyrgyzstan where hot dry summers in the former Soviet republic are leading to drought and cross- border tension over water supplies. Alastair Leithead, the BBC's Africa correspondent, is leaving the continent 17 years after he filed his first piece for From Our Own Correspondent. How much has his role changed since then? In the United States where fourteen parents have pleaded guilty to fraudulently getting their children into top universities, Laura Trevelyan considers the lengths some parents will go to help their offspring get into their preferred college. And as much of Europe swelters under a heat wave James Reynolds takes the temperature in Rome and finds out what hot weather means to its citizens.
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| 0:05.0 | Today, Getting the Grades has been on many teenage minds, despite the weather if university |
| 0:10.7 | beckons, and on parents too, but we hear not for some parents in the US |
| 0:15.9 | who are prepared to use other means to get a place for their offspring. Our |
| 0:21.5 | correspondent bids farewell to Africa reflecting on being an outsider, and more |
| 0:27.2 | weather. In Kyrgyzstan, hot weather means less water, while in Rome they're wondering what all the fuss is about. |
| 0:37.0 | Winning in Istanbul is vital in Turkish politics. |
| 0:41.0 | It's home to nearly a quarter of the population and the |
| 0:44.2 | bellwether for power. In a rerun of the city's mayoral election last week, the |
| 0:49.6 | opposition Republican People's Party candidate Ekram Im Imolu, was the decisive winner. |
| 0:55.8 | Significant as President Erdogan was born in the city and was its former mayor. |
| 1:01.8 | Mark Lowen considers what this means for the President. |
| 1:06.2 | The beer bottles had been cleared and Turkish flag swept away by the time Besikdash awoke |
| 1:12.1 | from its all-night street party. |
| 1:14.8 | This fiercely pro-opposition area of Istanbul had celebrated into the early hours after |
| 1:20.5 | Ekrem imamolu won a landslide victory against the government candidate |
| 1:25.0 | to become the city's mayor. Walking through the late morning sun, sipping a |
| 1:30.6 | strong coffee and nursing his hangover, was 22-year-old Thailand. |
| 1:35.8 | He's studying in Munich, but he and his friends had taken a bus for 30 hours back to Istanbul to vote. I left my country because I couldn't see a future with this government, he told me, |
| 1:47.6 | so I had to make the trip back to vote for Imamolu. Things will change here, he added beaming, and maybe I'll be able to come back to |
| 1:56.6 | Turkey. Some cancelled holidays and flew back from beach weekends to vote. At one polling station I met a hundred and one |
| 2:05.8 | old lady wheeled in by her 82 year old son-in-law to cast their ballots. This nation is fervently political and cares deeply about |
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