The Turkish local elections brought a tarnished victory for the ruling AKP.
![The Turkish opposition has demanded vote recounting in Ankara and Antalya [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20144585024303734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Kerem Oktem is a research fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford and currently a Mercator-IPC visiting fellow at Sabanci University, Istanbul. He writes on Turkey's domestic politics and foreign policy and on urban protest in the Middle East and Southeast Europe.
The Turkish local elections brought a tarnished victory for the ruling AKP.
![The Turkish opposition has demanded vote recounting in Ankara and Antalya [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20144585024303734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)