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2023-05-15 The Grand Turk

Erdogan could head to runoff in national election, state-run news claims

[NYPOST] The tightly contested ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish election between incumbent President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu could be headed to a runoff.

Despite leading comfortably earlier in the day, Erdogan was only up by a thin margin Sunday evening with 49.9% of the vote to Kilicdarglu’s 44.4% and almost 91% of the ballots counted, according to reports.

Under ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish election rules, the candidates would have to have a runoff on May 28 if neither man can get more than 50% of the vote.

Kilicdaroglu, a member of the country’s center-left Republican People’s Party, had disputed the earlier reports from the state-run news agency
...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
that had the incumbent leading in the race.

"We are ahead," the 74-year-old challenger, who is running as the representative of a six-party coalition seeking to unseat Erdogan, said on Twitter earlier on Sunday.

With distrust still running high, the Supreme Electoral Board, ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s election authority, said it would provide numbers to the competing political parties but would not make them public until after the count is finished.

Polling prior to the election had Kilicdaroglu leading the controversial Erdogan, with the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
nation’s domestic economy, civil rights and the country’s response to a devastating earthquake in February that killed more than 50,000 Turks looming as the main issues in the race.

Erdogan, 69, who is close to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
, has promised that he would repair his nation’s inflation-riddled economy and implement democratic reforms if re-elected.

#BREAKING/#North_Press
CHP's Kilicdaroglu says presidential vote will be resolved in second round of elections. #TurkeyElections
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 15, 2023

In a televised interview, Erdogan said he would scrap the 50 percent threshold for presidential elections, thereby effectively ending the two-round system. #turkeyelection https://t.co/qEuThuTzY5
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 14, 2023

Erdogan says Biden gave instructions to topple him

[Rudaw] On the eve of critical elections, ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
told his supporters that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
has given instructions to topple him.

"Biden gave the instructions saying ’we have to topple Erdogan.’ I know this. All my people know this. Tomorrow the ballots will give Biden an answer as well," Erdogan said during an election rally in Istanbul.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president and parliament to lead the country at the dawn of the second century of the republic. It is the country’s most crucial vote in years as the opposition looks to end two decades of Erdogan’s rule.

In a 2020 interview with the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, Biden encouraged Turkey’s opposition to defeat Erdogan at the ballot box.

At the rally, Erdogan also criticized his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu who had accused Russia of being behind fabricated videos and fake content online that have affected the race. The Kremlin denied the charge.

Erdogan said Russia is a crucial ally in agriculture, defence, and tourism sectors.

Despite NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
member Turkey’s close ties with Moscow, it has sold weapons and arms including drones to Ukraine in its war with Russia.

Turkey has not joined its NATO allies in imposing sanctions on Russia. Erdogan lauded this and claimed that Kilicdaroglu has said they will impose sanctions on Moscow. There is no public record of Kilicdaroglu saying this.

~~Ottoman~~ Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on Sunday. Erdogan faces his toughest challenge as his popularity has slumped amid an economic crisis, the soaring cost of living and inflation, and the aftermath of February’s devastating earthquake.

On Friday, ORC research firm, which accurately predicted the results of the 2018 presidential election, released the result of their latest poll that predicts Kilicdaroglu winning the race in the first round.

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