Making a statement on local elections, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan has said, “We have the majority in municipal councils in İstanbul and Ankara. If the elected mayor does not have a municipal council to lean on, he or she cannot get budget.”

Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched a "terrorism investigation" against the city's elected co-mayors Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı, Hülya Alaökmen and MP Berdan Öztürk from HDP.

Binali Yıldırım, the candidate of People’s Alliance for Metropolitan Mayorship of İstanbul, has stated, “The margin of votes has fallen to around 18 thousand. We are of the opinion that when the counting is completed, things will change.”

An appeal by AKP for the cancellation of the elections in the district of Büyükçekmece in İstanbul has been rejected by the Provincial Election Council. Commenting on that, CHP has claimed that AKP "intends to steal the elections."

Mehmet Maçoğlu, who has been elected Dersim Mayor as the candidate of the TKP, has got his mandate. After the ceremony in front of the municipality building, he will take the office from the trustee.

According to the latest data shared by Ekrem İmamoğlu, the candidate of the Nation Alliance for Metropolitan Mayorship of İstanbul, İmamoğlu is ahead of Binali Yıldırım, the candidate of People’s Alliance, with a margin of 18 thousand 742 votes.

Releasing a statement, the Bureau of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe has stated, “When challenges are made relating to many thousands of votes, questions inevitably arise about the integrity of election process.”

Men killed at least 22 women and attempted to kill at least 2 others in March 2019. While men raped six women, they also harassed seven others.

Having their hearings at three different courts, five Academics for Peace signatory to the peace declaration have been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison. The pronouncement of all five verdicts has been suspended.

The opposition's candidate for İstanbul has responded to AKP's claims that it gained 11,109 more votes after the recount, saying that he is ahead of the AKP candidate Yıldırım by 19,552 votes.

Academic Can Irmak Özinanır has been sentenced to 1 year, 10 months and 15 days in prison; the announcement of the verdict has been suspended. The statement of defense of one academic has also been interrupted by the presiding judge.

Paylan asks, "If we were ahead of AKP by 3 votes in if they objected to these results, would the objections be accepted or not?"

A different face of March 31 Local Elections in Turkey: A village head taking down the children’s park after not being elected for another term, a mayor burning his office chair after being elected, a mayor having his office door removed…

The second hearing of the case regarding the murder of Şule Çet, who suspiciously lost her life by falling off the 20th floor of a high-rise building, will be held on May 15. Women have demanded justice for Şule Çet with a video: “Query the Criminal!”

While the tension between Turkey and the US over the S-400 defense missile system and F-35 jets has been mounting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey has responded to the call made by the US “to accept local election results."

Mehmet Fatih Maçoğlu, who has been elected Mayor of Dersim as the candidate of the Communist Party of Turkey, has not been given the mandate on the ground of "a security problem." Election Council later said he will be given mandate tomorrow.

The main opposition party's Spokesperson Öztrak has announced that 21 districts in İstanbul will recount votes after objections. AKP İstanbul MP Çamlı has said that the recount has been completed in Fatih district.

Yalova District Election Council has announced that main opposition CHP’s mayor candidate Vefa Salman has won the elections by a margin of 332 votes. In 2014, the local elections were held again in Yalova upon AKP’s objection, the CHP won again.

Upon the objection of the ruling AKP against the unofficial election results in the capital city of Ankara, votes cast for the Metropolitan Mayorship will be counted again in 11 districts. Votes are also being counted again in 18 districts of İstanbul.

CHP Spokesperson Öztrak has said that the recounting of the votes has been completed in three districts in İstanbul and the difference between the candidates did not change much.