[Texas Fossil]

Even with imprisoning his opposition and cheating at ever step in the election process, looks like a bad election for the AKP.

CHP (Kemalists) might just make a resurgence.

There is not that much difference in the 2 parties, except the Islamist factor for Erdogan. The Kemalists said they were secular from the beginning.

Let's see where this goes. Should be interesting.

[dfwgator]

It means nothing.

[BradyLS]

Have Cook and Broward counties filed their returns yet?

[Flag_This]

"Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

[marktwain]

What?

I thought Erdogan was the great anti-Trump...

[yldstrk]

People will die

[montag813]

Why doesn’t someone just take him out already?

[monkeyshine]

He’s been playing fast and loose with the currency - attempting to prevent shorting in the foreign exchange markets but that has caused a lot of cash shortages at the banking level. “It’s the economy stupid” comes to mind.

[SJackson]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party on Sunday was facing defeat in local elections in the Turkish capital, Ankara, and possibly even Istanbul

Hasn't he been in power long enough to gain control of the electoral process? He has some work to do before he's up for election next.

[Mastador1]

Dicktators rarely, if ever lose power through elections, they control the ballot and the count. Maybe we can send Jimmmuuuuh over to tell the world it was a fair election, he was always good at supporting Dicktators.

[McGruff]

Time for another staged coup attempt.