Mevlüt Uysal, a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate, has been elected as the new mayor of Istanbul.
Uysal got 179 out of 308 votes, in the third round of the elections. Ekrem İmamoğlu, a candidate of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), received 125 votes, Hurriyet reports.
The election came after Istanbul’s former Mayor Kadir Topbaş resigned from his post on Sept.22.
The new mayor is known to have been the lawyer of the organizers of the Alevi intellectuals’ massacre in Sivas Madımak Hotel in 1993.