Posted on 04/10/2019 2:43:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
Turkey has been a mess for years under the increasingly despotic and incompetent leadership of Turkish President Erdogan.
The economy has been declining and suffering major problems with inflation and a decline in the value of the local currency, the lira, and Erdogan has launched increasingly vicious crackdowns on the opposition while breaking ties with former allies like the United States.
The Turkish people have finally gotten sick of this, and Erdogan’s party suffered a major electoral defeat last week in several major Turkish cities. Erdogan responded to his defeats about as well as you’d expect, and throwing around hysterical claims of vote fraud.
Anyone want to bet on how long it will take before he jails the opposition candidates and annuls all the elections that went against him?
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said electoral authorities should annul Istanbul’s local elections due to irregularities, notably over the appointment of ballot box officials, the pro-government Sabah newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Initial results show the main opposition Republican People’s Party narrowly won control of Turkey’s biggest city in the mayoral elections, seemingly bringing an end to the 25-year rule there by Erdogan’s AK Party and its Islamist predecessors.
Speaking to reporters on his plane, returning from a trip to Moscow this week, Erdogan said that regulations requiring that ballot box officials be civil servants had not been met everywhere, with regular workers placed in charge in some places.
“Our colleagues have established this. Naturally all this casts doubt. If they take a sincere view, this will lead to annulment,” he said.
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A senior AKP official said on Tuesday it would demand a new vote in Istanbul after its bid was rejected for a citywide recount of the March 31 election results after a series of recounts since the vote.
Probably real soon.
Erdogan is a despotic autocrat and Turkey has no business in NATO.
Yeah Hilary wants an election annulled too. So does Stacey Abrams.
The headline could be for 0bama.
So basically ergoden is a Democrat
Erdogan is a Democrat, how about that.
Didn’t see yours first!
Wow, Erdogan’s a Democrat.
I want to keep doing it until I win ,Tantrum Time
Get together with Hillary and cry in your soup too
His reign is a disaster for the Turkish people, who deserve it and a lot more. Dont Turks live in Turkmenistan? Why are they in Anatolian Greece? Invaders, muslim invaders is all a dirty Turk is.
No one could figure out how he won the first time.
I was in Turkey in 1982. I didn’t think they belonged in NATO, back then. I don’t think much has changed since then. They STILL don’t belong in NATO.
Hi.
Long time ago I was friends with two one star Turkish generals. 1st Army.
They had the cajones to deal with wannabe tyrants and despots.
Apparently not this batch of oyzo drinkers.
5.56mm
Must be related to Stacey Abrams!
VERY interesting. Thanks to all posters. BUMP!
Erdogan needs to meet Ceaucescu in Hell post haste.
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