Turkish media outlets begin airing local election results after ban lift

Candidates from 34 political parties competed in the elections, and over 206,000 polling stations were set up countrywide

The ban on broadcasting Sunday’s local election results in Türkiye has been lifted, the country’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) announced.

The YSK agreed to lift the election broadcast ban from 9:00 p.m., and media organizations will thus be able to broadcast results “as of now,” Ahmet Yener told reporters in the capital, Ankara.

Earlier, polling stations across Türkiye closed as voting in the country’s local elections ended at 5:00 p.m.

Candidates from 34 political parties competed in the elections, and over 206,000 polling stations were set up nationwide.

Voters living in Türkiye’s larger cities cast their votes for the metropolitan municipality mayor, municipality mayor, city council members, mukhtars, and elder councils.

Those cities include the capital Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir – the country’s three largest cities by population – as well as Adana, Antalya, Aydin, Balikesir, Bursa, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Erzurum, Eskisehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kahramanmaras, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Mugla, Ordu, Sakarya, Samsun, Sanliurfa, Tekirdag, Trabzon and Van.


The major competing parties are the governing Justice and Development (AK) Party, the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the Good (IYI) Party and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (DEM Party).

Source: AA