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Incumbent President Erdogan declares victory in Turkey
Nypost ^ | 05/28/2023 | AP

Posted on 05/28/2023 1:16:49 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory Sunday in his country’s runoff election, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade.

With nearly 99% of ballot boxes opened, unofficial results from competing news agencies showed Erdogan with 52% of the vote, compared with 48% for his challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; Iraq; Politics/Elections; Syria; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: declares; erdogan; iran; iraq; kemalkilicdaroglu; kurdistan; receptayyiperdogan; russia; syria; turkey; turkiye; ukraine; victory
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To: Leaning Right

True. And he and “Islamic Declaration” Izetbegovic were big buddies.

Turkey has prospered under him, though. He’s very clever at playing the West, Russia and China off against each other to Turkey’s benefit.


21 posted on 05/28/2023 2:07:55 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: dfwgator
He’s got a lot of Muzzie foot-soldiers throughout Europe to help him take over Europe.

That's the fault of the same WEF-endorsed politicians in Europe, the same ones all for the proxy war in Ukraine, that have let the Muslims immigrate in mass to their countries.

22 posted on 05/28/2023 2:12:57 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

“That’s the fault of the same WEF-endorsed politicians in Europe, the same ones all for the proxy war in Ukraine, that have let the Muslims immigrate in mass to their countries.”

Yep, their brilliant idea of an Arab Spring will go in history as the most suicidal move ever made by a society - as they already have 5 million ‘new arrivals’, the vast majority being fighting-aged men.

Good thing they’re involved in Ukraine, and have supporters here cheering them on. LOL!


23 posted on 05/28/2023 2:21:50 PM PDT by BobL
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did Dominion “count” the votes?


24 posted on 05/28/2023 3:24:32 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: dfwgator

Who cares at this point? Might be an improvement.


25 posted on 05/28/2023 6:06:01 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

That’s what Hitler wanted, an Islamic Europe, instead of “flabby” Christianity.


26 posted on 05/28/2023 6:06:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

He made a comment that can be interpreted as such, but the overall meaning was different.


27 posted on 05/28/2023 6:35:15 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

He felt that had the Germans adapted Islam instead of Christianity, say had Charles Martel lost at Tours, the Germanic peoples would have adopted Islam, which glorifies the soldier who dies in battle, and with it, they could have conquered the world.


28 posted on 05/28/2023 6:50:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Leaning Right; dfwgator; BeauBo; MalPearce; SpeedyInTexas; Monterrosa-24; Williams; libh8er; PIF; ..

I do think Erdogan wants Ottoman Empire 2.0. Turkey has a history connected with Crimea. An important question is whether he thinks he could get a better deal if Ukraine reclaimed in, or if Russia keeps it. I suspect he would be just as happy if Russia did not have gunboats stationed in Sevastopol, but rather sequestered in the Sea of Azov.

Regarding Erdogon and Trump, I was interested to see a while ago that Trump’s sons have a business relationship with Erdogon’s family members. Also, I think Trump was working on a big real estate deal in Turkey. I don’t know the results or details in either case.

Regarding the election itself, at least Erdogon did not win 97% of the vote, so perhaps there is still hope for staving off totalitarian islamic dictatorship for the moment.


29 posted on 05/29/2023 1:33:45 PM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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To: gleeaikin

I’m more worried about what replaced Erdogan, what I will say is definitely, Erdogan is setting the table.


30 posted on 05/29/2023 1:34:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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