for more on this that speech our correspondent in istanbul dorian jones dorian from the government's point of view this positive is all this project is all positive but of course not all agree can you tell us what people's concerns are please. well like all major projects there are big concerns and the location of the airport in one of the city's last forests true house approaches from viral mentalists the air is known as the lungs of the city as its location is on a major migratory path of birds is also raising concerns over safety and on top of that the construction itself twenty seven workers died and there was a crackdown on workers' conditions by the police with lot of arrests this also has marred the project but going for the big concern is is it financially viable a cost of around eight billion dollars and rising there are concerns that the figures it needs to secure of around one hundred fifty million to two hundred million passengers a year that it's a tall ask for this project to work but i think what's fueling the biggest concerns is the speed of this project all the proje

all right let's get the angle now from istanbul dorian jones our correspondent there is standing by dorianno what did turkey's president richard cohen say about france's commemoration of the genocide well we've been hearing some very tough language from president he said that france has no interest in finding out the truth accusing him of being up to mischief and i quote he said we see that those who attempt to lecture us on democracy and human rights over the armenian issue themselves have a bloody past them and went on to say that france was responsible for the rwanda genocide in which about eight hundred thousand people die so a very very tough language coming from the president clearly very angry over these commemorations being held by the french president in france so he's very angry but how does a turkey's position affect its ties with france or france this position affect ties with its counterpart well this has been a long point of tension between these two countries when the french parliament a few years ago passed motion recognizing the armenian genocide turkey slapped sanctions o

all right let's go to our correspondent dorian jones he is following this story for us in istanbul good evening to you dorian i mean there are a lot of people on the movement is stambaugh right now what kind of change are they hoping for. well i think firstly they want an end to twenty five years of parties affiliated with president one on top of that i think people did it come in my message of inclusion of a tea throughout this campaign he said that he would work for everybody in the city and he distinctly avoided getting gauge with president politics of polarization and fahri rhetoric which has very well in the past he said no i don't want to get involved with these politics a polarized nation i want to work for all the people and in fact his victory speech today he said i thanked turks greeks armenians laws all of turkey's vast and stumbles vast diverse population a message of inclusive ety and democracy that is what people will be looking for. that there will be no more challenge to the legitimacy of the new mayor and. the fact that this bird has been challenged by the aching. democracy in turkey. well a

dorian jones. he is following the story in istanbul. there are a lot of people on the move in istanbul right now. what kind of change are they hoping for? dorian: i think firstly they want an end to the rule of 25 years of parties affiliated with president erdogan. on top of that, i think people did warm to ekrem imamoglu's message of inclusivity. throughout his campaign he said he would work for everybody in the city and avoided getting involved in erdogan's politics of colorization and fiery rhetoric. he said, "no, i don't want to get involved with this politics of polarization, i want to work for all the people." in his victory speech today he said, "i think the kurds, turks, greeks, armenianss," all of istanbul's divers population,, a message of inclusivity. that is what people are looking for. brent: we say that there will be no challenges to the legitimacy of the mayor of istanbul, and the fact that this has been challenged, what is this say about democracy in turkey? dorian: absolutely, he is not guaranteed to stay in power. the government media commentators throughout the day have been saying that he better enjoy the next few days because he will not be in power for much longer, because the ruling a k have a file an annulment of the vote with the electoral board, and they have five cases claiming that the vote was fraudulent and filled with irregularities and they are calling for it to be be held. there have been concerned about the electoral board given that most of its members are appointed by the president and his government, and past decisions have been accused of being impartial. in relation to resemble, -- istanbul, broadly speaking there is acknowledgment from the opposition that they have behaved fairly, and that will continue. but with democracy, there will be questions for erdogan, because erdogan's electoral success the last 15 years has been built on actual success at the bollenbach. he says, "whatever you say about me, i went elections." no