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HSBC Turkey chief acquitted of insulting Erdogan

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Erdogan says Istanbul mayoral vote should be canceled

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The Latest: Turkish ruling party seeks rerun in Istanbul

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Turkish electoral board rejects full Istanbul vote recount

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FILE-In this Tuesday, March 5, 2019 file photo Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech at a rally of his ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) in Istanbul. The mood among opposition supporters in Turkey's biggest city is one of jubilation but also worry - fear that their win in Istanbul's mayoral race could be overturned in a recount taking place after the ruling party challenged the election results. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Turkey’s Erdogan defends demand for full recount in Istanbul

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Backdropped by a poster of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, left, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader, and modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, right, Ekrem Imamoglu, the CHP's mayoral candidate in Istanbul, poses for The Associated Press following an interview in Istanbul, Thursday, April 4, 2019. Imamoglu said he's confident that the result of a recount of votes in the city will confirm his victory and has renewed an appeal to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help end the standoff. Imamoglu won the tight race for Istanbul in Sunday's local elections in a major upset for Erdogan, who rose to power as the mayor of the city of 15 million and has said that whoever wins Istanbul wins to whole of Turkey. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey’s opposition worries as Istanbul recounts votes

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Turkey’s Erdogan stands by Russian air defense purchase

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, in a first public appearance after Sunday elections in Istanbul, Thursday, April 4, 2019, listens as he visits an uncompleted museum dedicated to the July 15, 2015 coup attempt. Erdogan's ruling party is appealing the results of the local elections in Istanbul, where the opposition has a razor-thin lead. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Istanbul mayoral candidate confident of win after recount

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Opposition urges Erdogan’s cooperation over Istanbul vote

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Ekrem Imamoglu, the candidate from an alliance led by the secular Republican People's Party, (CHP) gestures as he declares victory during a news conference in Istanbul, Monday April 1, 2019. Unofficial results by state-run Anadolu news agency said he had won 48.8 percent of the vote Sunday and his opponent, former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim of the ruling party, had captured 48.5 percent. One percent of the votes were still to be counted. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Erdogan’s ruling party challenges results of local elections

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Supporters of the Republican People's Party, CHP, wave Turkish flags, and one with a portrait of Kemal Ataturk, right, as they celebrate after preliminary results of the local elections were announced in Ankara, Turkey, early Monday, April 1, 2019. Erdogan's ruling party has declared victory in the race for mayor of Istanbul, even though the result in Turkey's most populous city and commercial hub is too close to call. State broadcaster TRT says former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim received 48.71 percent of the votes in Sunday's municipal elections while the opposition's candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, got 48.65 percent. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

The Latest: Election observers urge Turkey to honor results

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Voters wait in the line for cast their ballots at a polling station during the local elections in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, March 31, 2019. Turkish citizens have begun casting votes in municipal elections for mayors, local assembly representatives and neighborhood or village administrators that are seen as a barometer of Erdogan's popularity amid a sharp economic downturn. (AP Photo/Ali Unal)

The Latest: Opposition candidate says he won Istanbul

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An official female shows the ballot voting paper with names and the parties a polling station during the municipal elections in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, March 31, 2019. Turkish citizens have begun casting votes in municipal elections for mayors, local assembly representatives and neighborhood or village administrators that are seen as a barometer of Erdogan's popularity amid a sharp economic downturn. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey’s ruling party leads local elections but loses Ankara

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Binali Yildirim, the mayoral candidate for Istanbul, talks to supporters at a rally of his ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP), in Istanbul, Friday, March 29, 2019, ahead of local elections scheduled for March 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

A look at Sunday’s local elections in Turkey

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FILE- In this file photo dated March 4, 2019, A woman walks past posters showing Binali Yildirim, left, the mayoral candidate for Istanbul of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) and the candidate of Republican People's Party (CHP), Ekrem Imamoglu, right, in Istanbul, ahead of local elections scheduled for March 31. For Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the local elections are not just a vote to decide who should collect the garbage and maintain roads, they are about Turkey's future national &quot;survival.&quot; (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

For Erdogan, local elections are matter of national survival

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, during a rally in Adiyaman, Turkey, Tuesday, March 26, 2019, ahead of local elections scheduled for March 31, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Ahead of vote, Turkey’s Erdogan says US attacking economy

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A demonstrator holding a photo from one of the scenes of the mosque attacks in New Zealand, participates in a protest in Istanbul, Friday, March 15, 2019. World leaders expressed condolences and condemnation Friday following the deadly attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, while Muslim leaders said the mass shooting was evidence of a rising tide of violent anti-Islam sentiment. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Erdogan proposal to make Hagia Sophia a mosque irks Greece

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party during a rally in Kutahya, Turkey, Thursday, March 21, 2019. Erdogan has again screened clips of a video taken by the Christchurch mosque gunman, a day before the foreign minister of New Zealand _ which is trying to stop its use _ is due in Turkey.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

NZ says mosque gunman faces life in prison in isolation

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks in front of a model dinosaur during the inauguration of a theme park in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Erdogan has sparked a diplomatic spat with New Zealand and Australia as he campaigns for votes in local elections this month and portrays the mosque shooting in New Zealand and a World War I battle as targeting Islam.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Australia says tensions with Turkey ease after WWI remarks

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, at a rally in Istanbul, late Tuesday, March 19, 2019, ahead of local elections scheduled for March 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey’s Erdogan sparks spat with Australia, New Zealand

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