Topic: What's up with Turkey?

[RedSince86]

Video floating around on Reddit, guess it'll be on Twitter of tainted ballots for Erdogon.

Video shows someone being filmed with  a pile of empty ballots and voting Erdogan.

[Andy82lfc]

I’d like to believe there has been a ton of vote rigging but after a decade of swing (see mostly dumb as fuck) and other voters being duped into believing all kinds from brexit to Bolsonaro, then I’m not so sure.

[thaddeus]

The election results are looking predictably grim.

Top searching to dig this thread out 

But, yes, it's not looking good.  If the Turkish electorate don't vote for a return to democracy now then they possibly never will.  Erdogan and his AKP party will react to such a close run election by putting even more measures in place to make sure they don't get the same jeopardy in future elections.

Hopefully there's a big swing to Kilicdaroglu in two weeks' time.

The reported turn-out for the election was very impressive at 88.9% (compared to 67.3% in the 2019 UK GE)!

[elsewhere]

Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul should have been the candidate against Erdogan. Unfortunately because of poor economy, poor management during the pandemic and the devastating earthquakes, opposition thought even a tree trunk would win against Erdogan but I know my people so the result didn't surprise me a bit.

Erdogam wins %55-45 in the 2nd round imo.