ANALYSIS: The naked truth of Turkish 'Bazaar' politics.(HD).By MURAT YETKİN.
Here is the naked truth: Half of the corruption claims in any other democratic country would be enough to collapse the government; in Turkey it cost only a 5 point drop in support for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan in the March 30 local elections.
It is also true that Turkey hasn't experienced an election with so many fraud claims in decades.
Power outages in critical districts of critical cities like Istanbul and Ankara on election night; the replacement of poll box observers of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) during the vote count, allegedly by street bullies to intimidate observers from other parties, especially in Ankara; attempts to prevent poll observers from being in the room during voting, especially in the east and southeast of the country...
Those claims could have changed the result in some cities, but let’s face the truth: The difference between the AK Parti and others is not in the single digits. Istanbul and Ankara could have changed the picture, but they did not. The majority of Turkish voters have closed their eyes and ears to the corruption claims, because Erdoğan told them to do so. He still has such an influence on them.
Erdoğan’s political recipe based simply on antagonism won again. This time, the subject of antagonism were the supporters of Fethullah Gülen, the prime minister's former ally moderate Islamist scholar living in the U.S. who is accused of staging a coup against Erdoğan by bringing up corruptions claims. Erdoğan had vowed to root out the Gülenists during the election campaign and now there is no reason not to carry out that promise, as he will take the election results as a license to do so.Read the full story here.
Getting tired of the ‘every country deserves the leader it gets’ remark. Really? 55% votes AGAINST Erdogan
— Mike van der Galien (@MichaelvdGalien) March 31, 2014
Seems Turks are OK with a corrupt near-police state run by a dissent-crushing strongman | My take @Medium https://t.co/Yu2PHgG7gQ #Turkey
— david lepeska (@dlepeska) March 31, 2014
Something all Turks should take to heart pic.twitter.com/s2ht6VAohs
— Mike van der Galien (@MichaelvdGalien) March 31, 2014
#Ankara CHP candidate Mansur Yavas declares he is officially challenging the election count http://t.co/HBztKwHZBs #Turkey
— Noah Blaser (@nblaser18) March 31, 2014
@nuovoatlantide @MichaelvdGalien as I saaid in Italy when B. won, democracy can only exist w education + information. The latter gone in TR.
— Piero Castellano (@PieroCastellano) March 31, 2014
After what happened last night in #Ankara under thousands of citizens' eyes I have little doubt abt what happened in the rest of the country
— Piero Castellano (@PieroCastellano) March 31, 2014
@diehimbeertonis @guardian Next on Guardian: North Korean elections might not be perfectly democratic!
— tyyp://atlantis (@nuovoatlantide) March 31, 2014
@barinkayaoglu: "Erdogan has poisoned public discourse in Turkey to such an extent that, Turkey won't find peace."
http://t.co/YLCu6KK393
— Şafak Baş شفق (@TurkishIranian) March 31, 2014
@MichaelvdGalien 45% is terribly high for such a miserable dictator. These people simply do not belong to the modern world.
— tyyp://atlantis (@nuovoatlantide) March 31, 2014
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