Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan celebrated his election victory Sunday, declaring that “the sufferers of our region and all oppressed in the world” won the election as opposition leaders and international observers decry widespread arrests, ballot irregularities, and censorship.
This coming from a man who declared jihad on the Kurds and dispatched thousands of soldiers to “decimate them.” On January 20 and 21, 90,000 mosques in Turkey prayed Quranic conquest prayers, calling on Muslims to be ruthless to unbelievers.
Like all jihadists and Islamic supremacists, Erdogan is a liar who will say and do anything he can get away with to further his vision of a revived Ottoman Empire. He has already accused Europe twice of starting a war between the cross and the crescent, and has been at the forefront of pushing the idea that “Islamophobia” is a “crime against humanity.” Even with his disgraceful reputation as a violent jihadist despot, Erdogan has sent a “human rights” committee to visit Europe to probe “Islamophobia.”
One can expect that there was corruption at the deepest levels in the Turkish election.
“Erdogan Declares ‘Democracy Wins’ as Arrests, Fraud Claims Mar Turkish Election,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, June 25, 2018:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan celebrated his election victory Sunday, declaring that “the sufferers of our region and all oppressed in the world” won the election as opposition leaders and international observers decry widespread arrests, ballot irregularities, and censorship.
Despite most opposition candidates being effectively banned from television after Erdoğan shut down over one hundred media outlets in 2016 – and one presidential candidate facing 183 years in prison for criticizing Erdoğan’s policy on Kurdish Turkey – Erdoğan barely secured a simple majority on Sunday. According to the Turkish state-run Anadolu News Agency, Erdoğan received 52.56 percent of the vote.
Primary opposition candidate Muharrem İnce of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) received 30.64 percent of the vote; imprisoned Kurdish candidate Selahattin Demirtaş received 8.4 percent, and Meral Akşener, representing the debut of the nationalist Iyi (Good) Party, received 7.29 percent of the vote.
A map detailing how the vote broke down finds that Erdoğan dominated most of heartland rural Turkey, İnce did best with the urban vote, and Demirtaş locked down most states in the Kurdish-populated southwest. Edirne, the northeast city where Demirtaş is being held without a trial, went for İnce.
In the parliamentary election, Erdoğan’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) retained the plurality with 42.56 percent of the vote. They will govern in a coalition with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), a traditional ally of the AKP. Demirtaş’ secularist, left-wing People’s Democratic Party (HDP) received 11.7 percent of the vote, increasing its voting block in parliament and avoiding dropping below the ten percent threshold necessary to be represented in the legislature….
Krishna says
Lol what an funny image of erdogan
JOHN SPIELMAN says
he looks demonic- and so he should for he is a follower of allah who is Satan of the Bible
GP says
Nothing funny about Erdogan. He is a very dangerous man with a very sinister agenda.
David Barrett says
BEEN SAYING THAT FOR A VERY LONG TIME!
GP says
He has been given wide sweeping powers……very concerning.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12077414
Joe says
He has taken (not given) wide sweeping powers. There, fixed it for you. That little insurrection a few months ago, was most likely started by him to kill off the opposition.
Peter says
For Erdogan, democracy is a “station” to him becoming the 21st century’s first Sultan. Time to boot Turkey out of NATO, the Council of Europe, and EU accession, and treat it like the enemy state it is.
Halal Bacon says
apparently Erdo buddy, buddy’s Google translator is broken, “Sultan” does not mean Democracy in English
Gjallarhornet says
Erdogan looks just about ready to sing his signature tune. It goes like this: “Please allow me to introduce myself …”
SB says
The devil is in his eyes. Look at his face.
Save Europe says
He means a win for Islamofascism.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Yess, it is oppressed and those who want Turkey to thrive that have won. Those who want Turkey disintegrate and its fast economic growth to be slow in the west are the ones who lost. Hence, Turkish economic growth will never go backward with this landslide victory by Erdogan. By the year 2023 Turkey will move from 18th advanced economy to among 10 most advanced economies in the world . Currently Turkey is surpassing most EU nations in terms of economic growth.
Save Europe says
Let me fix your post for you, plonker! –
It’s oppressed = you mean ‘the country’s leader’ is oppressive.
If EVERY European country placed sanctions on Turkey, in terms of its tourism – no flights in or out – Turkey would fall to pieces.
Aside from that not one single Muslim country has produced or created anything. Take oil and gas out of the equation, and we shall all be waiting another 1,000 years for something of wonderment rather than FGM, stonings, Bacha Bazi, hatred towards all non Muslims, honour killings, paedophilia, aaaaand…..the list goes on !
gravenimage says
+1
Unknown says
This man is insane and I don’t doubt he would bring war to Europe again while he tries to revive the Ottoman Europe. Also to me, he doesn’t have anything different from those psycho from the last millennium. I mean, Mohammed, Stalin, Hitler, Che Guevara, Mao Tse Tung etc. Also how can he be so worried about the oppressed since he oppress Christians, Yazidis, Jews and even Chaldeans and Kurds? This also came from the man that declared that girls could be touched by their father as long as they are under 10 years old (just as a good Mohammedan would do).
gravenimage says
Turkey election: Erdogan declares a win for “democracy” despite corruption, fraud, arrests
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Erdogan has been Prime Minister or President of Turkey since 2003–he’s getting deep into dictator territory here. This has nothing to do with democracy.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage, that is your imagination. Turkey is now upholding true democracy for development. Turkish fastest economic growth will continue with victory by Erdogan despite plots by treacherous evil mithraist christian west headed by apartheid evil United States. Turkey will continue thriving, while evil mithraist christian west will be moving backwards due to aging population. Currently the economy of the evil United States is in full recession heading to depression. wicked people!!
Save Europe says
The attempted coup was organised by Erdogan HIMSELF! Then he cleaned shop and got rid of all those who opposed him – by locking them up.
Gjallarhornet says
United States is now in full recession, heading to depression? Economics is not your strength, we take it?
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Liar Gravenimage, that is your imagination.
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What obvious rot–nothing I said was untrue. Who can deny that Erdogan has been in power in Turkey as either Prime Minister or President since 2003? He himself doesn’t deny it. He is following Putin’s playbook.
By the end of this term Erdogan will have been in power in Turkey for twenty years. There is nothing democratic about that.
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Turkey is now upholding true democracy for development.
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Does “true democracy” mean a crushing of all opposition, free speech, and rights of the individual–to which Turkey is well on its way? It seems that Ibrahim itace muhammed has confused democracy with brutal Shari’ah law…
As for that development, here is what is really going on in an increasingly Islamizing Turkey:
“Turkey Looks Fragile Again”
https://www.barrons.com/articles/turkey-looks-fragile-again-1517020401
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Turkish fastest economic growth will continue with victory by Erdogan despite plots by treacherous evil mithraist christian west headed by apartheid evil United States. Turkey will continue thriving, while evil mithraist christian west will be moving backwards due to aging population. Currently the economy of the evil United States is in full recession heading to depression. wicked people!!
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Actually, the American economy is booming. Even during recessions, we are still an economic powerhouse–not so the largely stagnant Muslim world.
Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed a couple of months ago claimed that Muslims had completely destroyed the American economy, and that the US was now worth $0.
So much for his financial acumen…
Gjallarhornet says
Yes, his economic skills would hardly give him a job in the City of London me thinks … As I take it from what he written he is from Nigeria, a country he’ll no doubt describe as booming. Hm. Maybe he can work as an accountant for Mithras as screw up the books there?
Bowen Gustafsen says
CONSIDER THE OFFICIAL IVORY TOWER ANALYSIS:
Erdogan’s Win, Turkey’s Loss
By Ali Aslan, Washington DC
Turkey’s autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdogan added another critical, albeit controversial electoral win to his column last Sunday. A referendum officially changing the regime from a parliamentary democracy to a presidential system with little or no checks and balances passed with a narrow margin (51-49 percent).
With the Constitutional amendments, the position of Prime Minister will be dissolved, and all executive powers transferred to the President. The President can bypass Parliament, which loses considerable powers, by issuing decrees on a wide range of topics. The old constitutional requirement for the President to be neutral from political parties, which has been constantly undermined by Erdogan since he was elected in 2014, is gone. The new system grants the President authority to call for early elections, whereas the Parliament can do the same with three-fifths majority. Presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on the same day. According to a Center for American Progress report by Alan Makovsky, “The amendments package would reinforce the president’s growing control of the judiciary, potentially to the point of total dominance.”
The European institute