ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's High Election Board started evaluating on Monday an appeal by President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party to annul and re-run elections in Istanbul that saw the opposition win control of the country's largest city, local TV broadcasters said.
The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) won in the capital Ankara and Istanbul for the first time in 25 years in the March 31 local elections, in a major setback for Erdogan, who served as Istanbul's mayor in the 1990s.
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