Turkey’s top election authority says it is reinstating the victory of Abdullah Zeydan of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, after his removal led to protests and a crackdown by police. Zeydan won over 55% of the vote in the eastern city of Van in Sunday’s elections, but the city’s election board denied him victory, saying he was disqualified due to a previous conviction. The local election board had said the mayorship should instead go to the candidate of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK Party, who won just 27% of the vote. Abdullah Zeydan’s reinstatement is the latest blow to President Erdoğan after the opposition Republican People’s Party won mayoral races in Turkey’s five largest cities Sunday.