Posted on 06/07/2015 4:31:37 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
ISTANBUL Turkish voters delivered a rebuke on Sunday to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as his party lost its majority in Parliament in a historic election that dealt a blow to his ambition to rewrite Turkeys Constitution and increase his power.
The election results represented a significant setback to Mr. Erdogan, an Islamist who has steadily increased his power as president, a partly but not solely ceremonial post. After more than a decade as prime minister, Mr. Erdogan has pushed for more control of the judiciary and cracked down on any form of criticism, including prosecutions of those who insult him on social media, but his efforts appeared to have run aground on Sunday.
The election was also a significant victory to the cadre of Kurds, liberals and secular Turks who found their voice of opposition to Mr. Erdogan during sweeping antigovernment protests two years ago. . .
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This is fantastic news!
Well, whaddya know? Still some hope for Turkey . . .
Maybe Turkey can finally handle democratic elections after all.
It’ll be interesting to see the AKP’s response to losing the majority.
For once Turkey has discovered this little thing called “common sense.”
Can women vote?
Good news for the Western World.
The next five months will be important: the Iranians are moving two DIVISIONS into western Syria and plan on destroying Jordan and Israel. (I also believe they will try to destroy Saudi Arabia.) We’ll see whether Mr.Erdogan (Turkey) stays calm or goes into tyrannous overdive to join Ayatollah Khameini. Erdogan wants to unite ALL muslims.
See: ISIS Winning In Syria / http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230216
The video is very good and less than ten minutes long.
Did Obama try to meddle in this election? I understand he and Erdo are BFFs.
Bkmrk.
...and to the extent that they communicate in Arabic....no Ebonic or Austrian translators required.
XD
Constantinople is going to rise again.
Had Erdogan won, there probably would have been a large movement to remove him.
“Had Erdogan won, there probably would have been a large movement to remove him.”
The Turkish military does not trust him.
How nice. Turkey didn’t want a more powerful president. I guess the voters of Turkey saw what happens when an arrogant president get elected. They look at us and saw what happened here.
This is the best thing that could have happened on so many levels.
Certainly put a smile on my face. Mr. Caliphate Erdogan got his...er...hat handed to him.
Millions of Turks have long made it plain that they are not ready to give in to Islamism, Sharia law, and burkas.. thank goodness. See images.
This is from several years ago also. ". . . 32 percent to 38 percent of Turks (upward of 25 million people) would never support the [Islamist] AKP or want to live in a country shaped solely by its values." In recent years Erdogan was living the Obama dream.. journalists, professors, active and retired military were being arrested. Erdogan will probably try to continue that.
The image on the banner is of Ataturk the founder of modern secular democratic constitutional Republic of Turkey. The photos are from demonstrations of a few years ago protesting the ruling AK Party's Islamist (political Islam & Sharia law) leanings and reminding the AKP that they promised the voters that they would respect Turkey's heritage of secularism.
Miss your commentaries on events in Turkey.
The MHP got 81 seats. They are worse than the AKP. If the AKP and MHP form a coalition, that does not qualify as good news...
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