Meric Urer
March 31, 2019•Update: March 31, 2019
IZMIR, Turkey
Ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s mayoral candidate for the Aegean Izmir province Nihat Zeybekci voted in Turkey’s local election in Izmir on Sunday.
Speaking to reporters after casting his ballot, Zeybekci said: “We will respect to the decision of our nation.”
“Our nation will make the right decision,” he added.
Sunday’s polls mark the first local elections in Turkey under the new presidential system of government, adopted in the April 2017 referendum.
Voting started at 7 a.m. local time (0400GMT) and will continue through 4 p.m. local time (1300GMT) in 32 out of Turkey’s 81 provinces.
In the remaining provinces, polling stations have opened at 8 a.m. local time (0050GMT) and will close at 5 p.m. local time (1400GMT).
