AKP’s Zeybekçi expects to win in İzmir polls

Nihat Zeybekci, the People's Alliance's candidate for İzmir, a secular stronghold in Turkey's Aegean region, has said he is only 2.5 percentage points behind main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Tunç Soyer, but expressed his confidence that he will win Turkey's third largest city in the March 31 elections.