"Do not despair, we will continue to fight until we win," said Istanbul mayor and member of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's largest opposition Recep TayyipErdogan, a Turkish politician and prime minister. Born on February 26, 1954 in Istanbul.Graduated strength Republican People's Party (CHP) Ekrem Imamoglu (pictured), quoted by the newspaper "Duvar".

The ruler of the largest city in our southeastern neighbor addressed the members and supporters of opponents of power in Ankara on the occasion of the current head of state's victory in the run-off for president, held yesterday.

"We are a nation that can achieve tremendous success in a short time. We will continue our fight and win. We were disappointed with the results of the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, but a few months later we won the local vote," said the mayor of Istanbul, who defeated the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate, Binali Yildirim.

The founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, said: "There is no hopeless situation, there are desperate people." We are a multimillion-dollar army fighting for democracy, we will not surrender. We will work to win the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens and we will succeed in this endeavor and we will win," he added.

İmamoğlu also invited CHP members and sympathizers to take part in the scheduled for today commemoration of the 570th anniversary of the Ottoman capture of Constantinople.

The mayor of Istanbul was tipped as a candidate for Turkish president by the opposition, but Kemal Kilicdaroglu was nominated instead, losing the second round by about 5%.

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Meanwhile, two camps have formed in the Turkish opposition. In the first, they said imamoglu or Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş should have been nominated instead of Kilicdaroglu and called on Kilicdaroglu to resign from the CHP chairmanship. In the second, they defended the former president for president and said he had received the maximum of the vote, in view of the resources used in the campaign by the authorities.

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