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  1. I know some Turks in Istanbul who hate Erdogan and what he’s doing to the country. Fingers crossed!

  2. Turkey is our ally in name only, and has been slowly divesting itself of its formerly secular nature, and sliding toward the Muslim camp for quite some time now.

    If I were Trump, I’d keep very careful watch on Turkey.

  3. Erdogan must hire some democrats as advisors.
    Ballot stuffing apparently no longer suffices in Turkey.
    But vote harvesting will.

  4. “Turkey, a NATO ally and critical linchpin of stability in the region…” NYT – April 1, 2019

    LOLROTF

    Or perhaps that line is the NYT’s idea of an “April fool” joke?

  5. Indeed it’s very hard to tell with the NYT. (Though it’s quite obvious that their latest—massive—hit piece on Israel was meant as a prank….)

    On the other hand, they, in their arch wisdom, can always claim that Turkey will be “a linchpin”—until it no longer is, of course, which—oddly enough (but don’t tell them)— is already the case and has been so for years.

    (Even Obama(!) was becoming “impatient” with his best bud in the region….)

    Fortunately for Erdogan, though, there’s a whole slough of “factors” and “actors” and “fifth columnists” that he can blame, from Gulen to secular Turks to Trump to Bibi to World Jewry. (Still plenty of room in Turkish prisons.)

    Line ’em up in a row like little duckies and let ’em have it with both barrels of his monomaniacal paranoia.

    Yep, he’s a lucky one.

  6. “Republicans take note” – indeed.
    “It deployed monitors to not only scrutinize the vote tallies but also sleep on sacks of sealed counted ballots to guard against possible tampering by members of Mr. Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, the AKP.”

    I suspect Mr. Erdogan also has some of the magic car trunks that the Democrats find so handy for teleporting ballot boxes.

    No ballots not in the official counting room before the counting starts should ever be admitted later.

  7. BBC post says these were the results in the three cities:
    Istanbul – 48.8% CHP, 48.5% AKP
    Ankara – 50.9% CHP, 47% AKP
    Izmir – 58% CHP, 38.6% AKP

  8. Don’t be fooled. Even in the cities his party didn’t lose by much. His support is NOT in cities, where, obviously, a fair number of Turks dislike him. His support comes from rural areas, where the less-educated and far more fundamentalist voters abide. When he starts losing in those areas, then maybe we have something to be happy about. “Political quake” indeed. The New York Times is beginning to sound like the CIA, i.e., wrong about everything, every time out.

  9. Sleeping on top of ballot bags! That shows real drive. I like it. If I were in a swing state here, I’d volunteer to do so. Alas, I am not!

  10. Turkey under Erodogan a terrorist state. They belong in nato as much as California. We need to stop pretending we have allies beyond Israel and a few others. Basically, we are alone. In fact, we have few allies within the 50 states. Time to dissolve the failed union and move forward before bullets meet the bone.

  11. If Turkish democratic forces can stop Erdogan, winning elections in the big cities, first, is the only peaceful method.
    Which Erdogan also knows.
    So I expect Erdogan to steal these elections back, tho not with the vote harvesting that Dems used to “steal” some elections in the US.

    He is emulating too many Presidents for life. Like Chavez, and so many in Africa.
    So sad.

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