(ANSA-AFP) - ISTANBUL, MARCH 31 - Turkish voters began voting this morning to elect their mayors: a local vote that will have test value for the Erdogan administration, which intends to take back the "national treasure" Istanbul.
The first polling stations opened in the east of the country at 7am local time, while in the west and in large cities such as Ankara and Istanbul the operations began an hour later. At 70 years old, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has put all his stature as a statesman into his election campaign, plowing through his country of 85 million inhabitants together with the candidates of his Islamic-conservative AKP party. (ANSA-AFP).
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