president add ons justice and development party the a.k.p. wants to retain its majority at the local elections the day before the elections because taking part in a rally of the saturday mother. today 7 months after the government issued its ban the police are again obstructing families protesting against the disappearance of their children stossel sisters and brothers. but more like paul is running out of patience that. thank. you so called it is to goose the rule that being penned in here in the street only makes people angry or. we've already been incredibly angry for the last 38 years. but being treated like this intensifies that anger. would give is if you are the real. it's election night. for rick recently began working for tele one a small t.v. broadcast a critical of the government he's in charge of the stations local election coverage many of his colleagues have also been prosecuted the 1st exit polls start to come in the vote is seen as a barometer of anyone's popularity and last year's constitutional changes that gave him sweeping new p

citizens clearly wanted change in their leadership where do you think the a.k.p. let them down and left them disappointed. excuse me i couldn't i couldn't hear you could you please repeat your question voters clearly disappointed with the a k p s leadership where do you think that you've let let them down. who called you a question well but i think you are talking about the direction of our people and like i said this is the nature of politics we have sometimes moments sometimes you lose and we will take out thought as. the lies the results we have. and will try to improve ourselves because we are the one that is sort of in this country. we will continue being for. the giants in your party type erda want turkish president i mean he is own political career began it is how much of this is a personal defeat this election for. the i think there are technical problems really here your question i'm going to leave it there dan. i'm on we appreciate you sticking with us despite those technical issues that we've had here with the sound as we mentioned that you were the spo

want to solve. problems is rival bin ali gilder him from president everyone's ruling party has conceded defeat a.k.p. call for the rerun after suffering a narrow defeat in the 1st election in march. wu han is in istanbul for us she's been following these elections there you are yulia opposition candidate winning now for a 2nd time how surprised are you by that outcome. well his victory clearly doesn't come as a surprise at all to his supporters as you can see all around me people are celebrating they are chanting and they went t. shirts and had ben's with his political slogan that isn't turkish pear shaped is out of my jacket everything will be a great mistake mom who has mad and all i'm crazy grassroots campaign in the past week he has campaigned very hard he has tried to reach out to people he must have taken thousands of selfies with people here he won the vote in march by a very narrow margin of just 14000 votes and now you want to get a very good size of 700000 votes and you can see how happy that makes people around me everybody tonight is celebrating its a farce opposition victory here in ist

a.k.p. is undefeatable i thought the same but i'm a lewis cross this idea that the moment you want to get a vote on this you could maybe kind of change everything because the ruling party is really powerful come to us which we did but he made a huge impact already because of that's good i'm hopeful for my country again. don't lose them or your generation because he gives us hope we don't want to do and . they live on the outskirts of istanbul rent some more affordable is an accountant and souter works in the pharmaceuticals industry their son yeat is in middle school . turkey's ongoing currency crisis has forced the family to rein in spending the. no matter what we do everything is doubled or tripled in price. mr income has not increased the same rate this is very troubling for us souder is convinced that a crummy man who as mayor would get the city's economic problems under control recently in model is hear it on television and begin to talk about how the a peace plan leadership in eastern blue has allegedly been wasting money for years to host suddenly ended the interviews. yeah coming ri

a.k.p. party may well get a feel for that discontent when the people of its general vote in the mayoral rerun this weekend. sometimes it's helpful to change perspective city decides it doesn't want any more skyscrapers and still needs office a living space what to do is a clever idea try go horizontal. at a bend in the jelling river where it's dark green waters meet the muddy currents of the young sea then you referenced city chongqing rises skywards the project comprises 8 futuristic high rise towers 6 of which are connected by a sky bridge. and of course one of the highlights and talent of this project is this concept retreat. along of steel and glass an element of ok off was during construction to build this horizontal tower up on city one of 4 top. is a big challenge the 73 storey towers are a sign that china's property slowdown hasn't taken hold here but not everyone's welcome to the wrestles towers labor is working in the adjacent docks area had been cleared out during the properties development. it's a nice suppose it probably influenced the housing prices nearby and jeans will probably go up. but i can't say much more about it than that. which is a. develop a site 3 quar

cities that have large wants her place in the economic centers of turkey in istanbul especially obviously was you know really important for the opposition to win for for the a.k.p. obviously very hot for loss and i think what we see is that 1st of all their position which is quite different factions of people actually could unite around this idea of saying you know kind of like we are united against the system for one and against this like one man. and at the same time we also see that you know more and more supporters of the a.k.p. in the mayhap equalisation actually disappointed in the government and also themselves not cutting out to vote as much as they did before maybe some shift that disappointment in the u.k. people might be an understatement what do you think triggered this result i think it has multiple factors over the. economy conditions has always been one of the dominant forces congress very big and. in turkey if we look at the breaking point when it when we're talking about the similar seismic shifts in the political environment in turkey over the past 50 years we always see the economy as one of the most important underlying causes of that so whe

a.k.p. in power since the party is in power for more than 17 years and this political politically conservative movement has run this city for more than 25 years so these young people say we want change we sometimes don't feel we can express ourselves freely we want better education better jobs and they now have these hopes that misty mamadou the opposition's may and now can change that so there is at the same time a huge response ability now for this new mayor here in turkey's largest city and the big question is what he will do next earlier we spoke with the deputy chair on foreign affairs from him on the loose party and we asked him whether the new mayor would now have his sights set on challenging era to want for the presidency i wish to listen in to what he said and get your reaction. so many men will be has become a very important political figure in ready ready politics if. success is sustainable if you shows the. sustainable success in istanbul then there's certainly going to be. you know how likely does it look that he'll challenge everyone on the national level. well that's of course what many people are now talking about but you have to know president add one is sti