To the mayor of istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, Zeinab Badawi in istanbul. My guest today is the new mayor of the city, Ekrem Imamoglu. He dealt a massive setback to the Ruling Ak Party when he defeated their candidate not once but twice when there was a rerun of the election. President erdogan once said whoever wins istanbul wins turkey. Is Ekrem Imamoglu now the man to watch in turkish politics . Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, welcome to hardtalk. Are you surprised that youre sitting here in the Mayors Office . It is, after all, the first time in 25 years that your chp party has won this position. Your party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said, do not forget, today the victor is democracy, thats when you won, and he said, the whole world that believes in democracy is proud of turkey. So the Ruling Ak Party, president erdogan, your party are suggesting are good democrats, they didnt rig the election . What kind of precautions did you take . President erdogan has
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Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time, this subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation, and the General Services administration in response to those committees and subcommittee document requests. I now recognize myself, for an Opening Statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here, although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi, and gsa have not complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. We witnessed a stunning lack of cooperation across the administration, in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to performance important constitutional oversight mission, we must have documents and information requested from agencies. That, in turn, r
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