{"id":38847,"date":"2019-04-05T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38847"},"modified":"2019-04-05T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:24:22","slug":"roadmap-for-syrias-manbij-moving-slower-than-desired-turkish-military-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38847","title":{"rendered":"Roadmap for Syria&#8217;s Manbij moving slower than desired: Turkish military sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56\">\n<p>\nANKARA: Turkey\u2019s main opposition candidate in Sunday\u2019s Istanbul local elections said on Friday he remained ahead by 18,742 votes after a recount of invalid votes in 17 of the city\u2019s 39 districts.<br \/>Late on Thursday, election officials expanded the vote recount in Istanbul, broadcaster CNN Turk said, as President Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s AK Party pushed its appeal against its shock election defeat there. It was unclear how many districts would ultimately see recounts.<br \/>Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) mayoral candidate Ekrem Imamoglu told Turkey\u2019s Fox TV he did not expect the gap between his party and the AKP to change substantially when the recount in the country\u2019s largest city was completed.<br \/>\u201cFrom what I see, it should end this weekend. It will fall into a 18,000-20,000 range, that\u2019s what all the simulations show. These are very tight numbers,\u201d he said.<br \/>He said 119,652 invalid votes had been recounted, with 2,184 votes added in favor of the AKP and 785 added for the CHP.<br \/>The AK Party said it would also demand a wider check on votes across the capital Ankara, which, according to initial results, it also narrowly lost in Sunday\u2019s nationwide municipal vote.<br \/>Those losses, if confirmed, would be particularly painful for Erdogan, whose party and its predecessor have dominated the two cities for 25 years. He launched his political career in Istanbul and served as the city\u2019s mayor in the 1990s.<br \/>On Wednesday, Turkey\u2019s High Election Board had ordered a full recount in three of Istanbul\u2019s 39 districts and a recount of just invalid ballots in 15 districts. However, late on Thursday the board decided there would be a full recount in those 15 districts as well, CNN Turk said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: Turkey\u2019s main opposition candidate in Sunday\u2019s Istanbul local elections said on Friday he remained ahead by 18,742 votes after a recount of invalid votes in 17 of the city\u2019s 39 districts.Late on Thursday, election officials expanded the vote recount in Istanbul, broadcaster CNN Turk said, as President Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s AK Party pushed its appeal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}