{"id":12712,"date":"2019-05-07T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/turkeys-erdogan-defends-istanbul-election-re-run-amid-protests\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:46:01","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-defends-istanbul-election-re-run-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/turkeys-erdogan-defends-istanbul-election-re-run-amid-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Orders Electoral Rerun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12726\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12726\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<br \/>thomas koch \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you do as Turkish President if your prefered candidate loses a democratically voted mayoral election &#8211; why declare it illegal and have the vote again in the hope you get the <strong>&#8220;right&#8221;<\/strong> result the second time. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hasn&#8217;t done himself or his country any favours as this looks more like dictatorship than democracy.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-48184149\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What do you do as Turkish President if your prefered candidate loses a democratically voted mayoral election &#8211; why declare it illegal and have the vote again in the hope you get the &#8220;right&#8221; result the second time. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hasn&#8217;t done himself or his country any favours as this looks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1172,218],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-news","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12727,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions\/12727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}