ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffered a bruising defeat on Sunday night as the opposition candidate in Istanbul’s controversial mayoral election rerun romped to victory.

As of 11 p.m. Sunday (4 a.m.; Monday in Manila) Ekrem Imamoglu had won the first mayoral vote in March by a slim margin of 13,000 votes over Erdogan’s chosen candidate, Binali Yildirim, who contested the results and a new election was ordered.

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