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Turkey’s main opposition party made huge gains in the country’s urban areas in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/things-know-turkish-local-elections-gauge-erdogans-popularity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local elections</a> Sunday, dealing a blow to longtime President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who wanted to retake control of those areas. Per the state-run Anadolu Agency, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-politics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican People’s Party</a>, or CHP, won the municipalities in nearly half of Turkey’s 81 provinces. Incumbent Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of CHP, was leading by a by a wide margin in Turkey's largest city and economic hub, with more than 80% of ballot boxes counted.Mansur Yavas, the mayor of the capital, Ankara, retained his seat with a stunning 25-point difference over his challenger, according to the results.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/polish-president-vetoes-legalization-over-the-counter-morning-after-pill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLISH PRESIDENT VETOES LEGALIZATION OF OVER-THE-COUNTER MORNING AFTER PILL</a>In all, the CHP gained 37% of the votes nationwide, compared to 36% for the president's party, marking the CHP's greatest electoral victory since Erdogan came to power two decades ago.The vote was a key test of Erdogan's popularity as he sought to win back control of key urban the opposition won in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/a-look-at-sundays-local-elections-in-turkey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elections five years ago</a>. The CHP's victory in Ankara and Istanbul in 2019 had shattered Erdogan's aura of invincibility.The main battleground for the 70-year-old Turkish president was Istanbul, a city of 16 million people where he was born and raised and where he began his political career as mayor in 1994.The result came as a boost for the opposition, which was left divided and demoralized after a defeat to Erdogan and his ruling Islamic-oriented Justice and Development Party, or AKP, in last year's presidential and parliamentary elections.

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title: Turkey’s Erdogan suffers setback after opposition sees massive gains in urban
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content: Turkey’s main opposition party made huge gains in the country’s urban
 areas in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/things-know-turkish-local-elections-gauge-erdogans-popularity"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">local elections</a> Sunday, dealing a blow to longtime
 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who wanted to retake control of those areas. Per
 the state-run Anadolu Agency, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-politics"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican People’s Party</a>, or CHP, won the municipalities
 in nearly half of Turkey’s 81 provinces. Incumbent Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
 of CHP, was leading by a by a wide margin in Turkey's largest city and economic
 hub, with more than 80% of ballot boxes counted.Mansur Yavas, the mayor of
 the capital, Ankara, retained his seat with a stunning 25-point difference over
 his challenger, according to the results.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/polish-president-vetoes-legalization-over-the-counter-morning-after-pill"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLISH PRESIDENT VETOES LEGALIZATION OF OVER-THE-COUNTER
 MORNING AFTER PILL</a>In all, the CHP gained 37% of the votes nationwide,
 compared to 36% for the president's party, marking the CHP's greatest electoral
 victory since Erdogan came to power two decades ago.The vote was a key test
 of Erdogan's popularity as he sought to win back control of key urban the opposition
 won in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/a-look-at-sundays-local-elections-in-turkey"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">elections five years ago</a>. The CHP's victory in
 Ankara and Istanbul in 2019 had shattered Erdogan's aura of invincibility.The
 main battleground for the 70-year-old Turkish president was Istanbul, a city of
 16 million people where he was born and raised and where he began his political
 career as mayor in 1994.The result came as a boost for the opposition, which
 was left divided and demoralized after a defeat to Erdogan and his ruling Islamic-oriented
 Justice and Development Party, or AKP, in last year's presidential and parliamentary
 elections.
summary: Turkey’s main opposition party made huge gains in the country’s urban areas
 in local elections Sunday, dealing a blow to longtime President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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