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| The Grand Turk |
| Main opposition leader describes referendum results as ‘democratic victory’ of ‘no’ camp |
| 2017-04-18 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] The 24 million Turkish citizens who voted against the constitutional changes have scored a "democratic victory" even though they failed to halt the government’s project, the main opposition leader has said, warning that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will be ungovernable with the constitution. "Despite all the bureaucratic pressure of the state, despite all the state’s financial and bureaucratic resources [used by the government] and despite the ongoing state of emergency, the naysayers claimed a victory for democracy, no matter what they say," Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), said in a phone interview with daily Hurriyet on April 17. The "no" camp scored 48.6 of the votes while the "yes" side scored 51.4 percent, although the result was marked by controversy. "Why is it a democratic victory? I will give you an example from our history. We experienced similar conditions before the voting on the Sept. 12 constitution which was drafted by the military junta [in the early 1980s]. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "Why is it a democratic victory? 'cause it's just like HRC. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-04-18 08:10 |