AK Party scores win as Turkish opposition stronghold's mayor joins

İzmir Mayor Cemil Tugay joined Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Wednesday, handing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a major symbolic victory in the country’s third-largest city and a longtime opposition stronghold. Erdoğan announced Tugay’s move at an AKP parliamentary group meeting in Ankara, welcoming him onstage amid celebrations broadcast live on television. “I […] The post Mayor of opposition stronghold İzmir joins Erdoğan’s AKP appeared first on Turkish Minute .