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The Grand Turk

Voters in Turkey hand Erdogan thundering defeat in watershed local election

2024-04-01

ULULULULULULULULU!!!

[IsraelTimes] 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...
is licking his wounds after voters dealt him and his party their biggest electoral blow in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president’s chief rival.

Nobody has deserved his comeuppance more.

With most of the votes counted, Imamoglu led by 10 percentage points in the mayoral race in Istanbul, ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s largest city, while his Republican People’s Party (CHP) retained Ankara and gained 15 other mayoral seats in cities nationwide.

It marked the worst defeat for Erdogan and his AK Party (AKP) in their more than two decades in power, and could signal a change in the country’s divided political landscape.

In a post-midnight address, Erdogan called the resounding defeat a "turning point."

He tells crowds gathered at AKP headquarters in Ankara that his alliance had "lost altitude" across the nation and will take steps to address the message from voters.

"If we made a mistake, we will fix it" in the years ahead, he said. "If we have anything missing, we will complete it."

Erdogan, who in the 1990s was also mayor of his hometown Istanbul, had campaigned hard ahead of the municipal elections, which analysts described as a gauge of both his support and the opposition’s durability.

The results represent an even worse showing than losses that had been predicted by opinion polls due to soaring inflation, dissatisfied Islamist voters and, in Istanbul, Imamoglu’s appeal beyond the CHP’s secular base, analysts say.

"Those who do not understand the nation’s message will eventually lose," Imamoglu, 53, tells thousands of jubilant supporters, some of them chanting for Erdogan to resign.

"Tonight, 16 million Istanbul citizens sent a message to both our rivals and the president," said the former businessman, who is now widely touted as a likely presidential challenger.

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Posted by:trailing wife

#4 The results represent an even worse showing than losses that had been predicted by opinion polls due to soaring inflation, dissatisfied Islamist voters and, in Istanbul, Imamoglu’s appeal beyond the CHP’s secular base, analysts say.

Not always better

Posted by: Frank G 2024-04-01 10:04

#3 Erdogan suffers huge blow in Turkish elections as opposition party claims historic victories in Istanbul and Ankara

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-01 08:08

#2 I think Turkey requires an ID to vote. Pretty much every country in Europe does.

Posted by: lord garth 2024-04-01 00:26

#1 They don't have Dominion?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-01 00:10

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