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Turkey's youth hold Erdogan in their grasp
Ahval (Events) News ^ | Jun 21 2018 | Nick Ashdown

Posted on 06/22/2018 7:34:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

About 1.6 million young Turks will be voting for the first time in Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

18-year-old Ekrem, a recent high school graduate from the large, western city of Bursa, will be proudly casting his ballot along with 57 million other voters.

“You feel like you’re doing something for the good of your country,” he said.

But Ekrem, who didn’t want to risk giving his last name in a country where people are regularly prosecuted for ‘insulting’ public officials, also worries about the integrity of the vote.

“In the last three to four years there have been a lot of questions about whether the elections are fair and whether our votes matter.”

Last year’s national referendum to increase President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s already formidable powers was marred by numerous allegations of fraud , voter suppression and other irregularities such as the detention of official observers. Sunday’s vote will take place under a two-year-long state of emergency after harassment and extremely limited coverage of the opposition in the media, most of which is loyal or subservient to the government.

According to data shown to Ahval by Metropoll polling agency head Özer Sencar, a striking 18.7 percent of respondents aged 18-24 said that as an act of protest against the referendum, they didn’t vote in it, though overall turnout was 85.5 per cent.

About 10 million people, or 20 per cent of Turkey’s electorate, are 25 years old or under. The youngest have never known a time when the country wasn’t dominated by Erdoğan, who’s led Turkey as prime minister and then president since 2003.

(Excerpt) Read more at ahvalnews2.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election; turkey; voters; young
Will they vote to re-elect Erdogan the Islamist Dictator of Turkey?

Will they allow him to extend his emergency "super powers"?

We will soon see. The election is Sunday the 24th.

1 posted on 06/22/2018 7:34:39 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

It doesn’t matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes.


2 posted on 06/22/2018 7:36:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Possibly


3 posted on 06/22/2018 7:37:14 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Yep!


4 posted on 06/24/2018 3:57:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, you were right.

Internal voting in Kurdish region show 13% plus vote.

Numbers are like Jello, constantly changing. Shows they simply lied.

And the CHP (Kemalists) are right in line with AKP (Erdogan). Fix is in.


5 posted on 06/25/2018 3:27:16 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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