While Ukraine is engaged in a standoff between a comedian and the rulling oligarch, Turkey held local elections. President Recep Erdogan and his allies remained in power but they seem to be lost some key positions on the local level.
Mansur Yavaş, the candidate of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and İYİ (Good) Party, has emerged as the winner in Ankara, becoming the capital’s new mayor. He is about 2% ahead of his rival, according to unofficial figures. Mehmet Ozhaseki, the candidate of the People’s Alliance, between the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) received nearly 47.76% of the votes. The CHP has ousted the ruling party from the post after 25 years, with 49.75% of the ballots.
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Ekrem Imamoglu, the candidate of the CHP is also ahead over his opponent from the AKP in Istanbul, according to data by the country’s High Election Board. With 99.95% votes counted, Imamoglu has 48,76%.
Earlier, both sides claimed victory in the Istanbul election.
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In the third-largest city, Izmir, the opposition Nation Alliance bloc candidate Mustafa Tunc Soyer is in the lead with 58%. Nihat Zeybekci, the candidate for Erdogan’s bloc, had 38.5 percent. About 99% of the votes have been counted.
Fatih Macoglu, from the Communist Party of Turkey’s (TKP), became the first-every communist mayor of a province center in Turkey after winning the election in eastern Tunceli province.
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The nationwide situation still seems to be in favour of Erdogan and his allies. In aprticular, the president’s AKP has 41.61% with 99.81% votes counted. Despite this, the recent developments show negative tendensies for the rulling government, which has faced a series of economic setbacks over the past few years. A successful foreign polciy allowed Turkey to achieve some goals in the region. However, the economic and social issues have been adressed less efficiently.
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At least somewhat good news from Turkey…
KP come-back?
Why is it good news? All the Kemalists are just as bad. At least with Erdogan we know he is anti-Israel and is starting to warm up to President Assad. Plus he is pushing Turkey further away from NATO.
Excellent points.
It’s Turkey. Votes don’t count, bullets do.
Commies, still alive? ISIS, Zionists, Takfiris, Nazis, Gülenists, Grey Wolves, Deep State, TPTB, Liberals, Jesuits, Black Lives Who Dont Matters and now crawling up from under the bed also Commies.
Erdogan”s problem in this election is that he cannot use the votes of the Turkish diaspora in Western Europe for this, like in the parliamentary and presidential elections. They only watch the Erdogan controlled media via satellite dishes and can be counted upon to give Erdo his majority every time. His staunchest supporters these days are these foreign born Turks, and probably the main source of pro Erdogan trolls here. Unfortunately for Erdo this time they don’t get to vote, so now we are seeing the real electoral strength of Erdo inside Turkey.
It is worrying that these foreign-born Turks now second and third generation Europeans, actually vote for him at all. One would think they would vote for more EuroCentric Turk political parties. Seems you can take the man out of Turkey but not the “Turk” out of their men. Native Europeans watch out! Bulgaria was right to throw these people out .
It is worrying that all those 2nd and 3rd generation foreign born Turks still think of themselves as Turks and are Erdogan’s biggest fanboys. Thankfully people have woken up to that problem. We can talk about the failed integration, about where European governments dropped the ball, about how the left obstructed things with counterproductive namby pamby social work and the right just didn’t give a damn. Or how Erdogan went out of his way to make sure the Turkish Diaspora would remain bound to Turkey. But then again maybe the biggest problem is the simple satellite TV dish. Because without this device foreign born Turks would not have been able to watch Turkish media and remain focused on Turkey. Who knows how well the American, Canadian or Australian melting pots would have worked as they did if all those immigrants would have had satellite dishes to still watch their own national TV programs in the past?
Policy influences behavior, but so does technology.