[neuron2]

The religious right in Turkey won't be getting any votes for another couple of decades as a result of this debacle.

Do you have any basis for this seemingly absurd claim beyond wishful thinking?

[Mortimer Snavely]

Erdogan and the AKP won the plurality of the vote with 34% of the electoral pie. That means 66% of the Turkish electorate despise him and his party, but were to fragmented to keep him out of office. This is a statistic of great significance, but is not appreciated by most casual observers. Given the current appalling situation, it is highly likely that he and the AKP will have their butts handed to them on a shish kebab skewer come election time.

[a_Turk]

>> The religious right in Turkey won't be getting any votes for another couple of decades as a result of this debacle.

> Do you have any basis for this seemingly absurd claim beyond wishful thinking?

They have, within two months of being elected on a platform promising relief to the poor, managed to increase interest rates by about half and thereby the cost of internal debt service (bonds, etc) by about that much, resulting in brand new taxes in addition to new cost cutting and other austerity measures. This will clearly cost them votes.

Add to that their drafting of the bill to allow in US troops, even though unsuccessful, which went against the wishes of over 94% of the public..

I think they are through.. To think that they won't make any mistakes during the rest of their term would be wishful thinking..