Posted on 04/02/2019 4:55:04 PM PDT by Innovative
ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party said Tuesday that it had submitted challenges to election results that showed its candidates had been defeated in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey’s largest cities, in local elections two days earlier that dealt a rare setback to Erdogan at the ballot box.
The Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has repeatedly prevailed in elections since 2002 and was the leading vote-getter on Sunday. But its losses in major cities — including Istanbul, Turkey’s financial capital — were a significant symbolic defeat for Erdogan and threatened to weaken his powerful party machine, analysts said.
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Now where did they learn that?
Per Stalin: “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
As I posted in the other thread, I saw a speech by the editor of the main opposition media company, Zaman, after it was raided and taken over by Erdogan’s thugs 3 years ago. He was lucky to get himself and his family out alive. Turkey has no business in NATO, it is an autocracy. I predict these election results are ignored.
https://www.itv.com/news/story/2016-03-05/turkish-newspaper-seized-by-government/
Just like Democrats!
The only legitimate elections are elections they win.
If that was the case here, there wouldn’t be any issues.
I’m surprised it was possible for the other party to win.
But after the challenge, you may still be right.
I don’t know how much of a grip he has on Turkey.
Hell, I thought the fix was in here and then Trump won.
I lived in Izmir in 71-73. At the time it was a decent assignment. I knew Turkey as I remembered it was pretty much over when he was able to purge the General Staff. No way would I want to live there now. They need a new Kemal Ataturk.
“Erdogan’s party challenges election results”
...to Erdogan’s judges.
Nobody gets tired. Big city liberals might be a bit disappointed but rednecks elsewhere couldn’t be any happier. Anyone campaigning for the opposition would get beaten outside Istanbul and not by the police but by regular folks. He is not going anytime soon.
Yeah that’s a shame man.
We have a leader of a NATO country threatening Christians, basically, with his comments about NZ and the shooting.
That’s just great.
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