Turkey’s main opposition CHP party has seized control of the municipal councils in Istanbul and Ankara from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AKP party, according to preliminary results, an election authority official told dpa on Tuesday. The news followed two days after the success of the centre-left and secularist CHP – Republican People’s Party – in mayoral elections. While the CHP secured the posts of mayor in both cities in the 2019 local authority elections, the municipal councils had remained in the hands of the Islamic conservative AKP – Justice and Development Party. The mayors – Ekrem…