Turkey: “An End to an Era of Oppression”
Turkey: “An End to an Era of Oppression,” The Gatestone Institute, Burak Bekdil, June 8, 2015
- “We, through democratic means, have brought an end to an era of oppression.” — Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition, Republican People’s Party (CHP).
- Erdogan is now the lonely sultan in his $615 million, 1150-room presidential palace. For the first time since 2002, the opposition has more seats in the parliament than the AKP.
For the first time since his Islamist party won its first election victory in 2002, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was nowhere to be seen on the night of June 7. He did not make a victory speech. He did not, in fact, make any speech.
Not only failing to win the two-thirds majority they desired to change the constitution, the AKP lost its parliamentary majority and the ability to form a single-party government. It won 40.8% of the national vote and 258 seats, 19 short of the simple majority requirement of 276. Erdogan is now the lonely sultan at his $615 million, 1150-room presidential palace. For the first time since 2002, the opposition has more seats in parliament than the AKP: 292 seats to 258.
“The debate over presidency, over dictatorship in Turkey is now over,” said a cheerful Selahattin Demirtas after the preliminary poll results. Demirtas, a Kurdish politician whose Peoples’ Democracy Party [HDP] entered parliament as a party for the first time, apparently with support from secular, leftist and marginal Turks, is the charismatic man who destroyed Erdogan’s dreams of an elected sultanate. Echoing a similar view, the social democrat, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party [CHP], commented on the early results in plain language: “We, through democratic means, have brought an end to an era of oppression.”
What lies ahead is less clear. Theoretically, the AKP can sign a coalition deal with the third biggest party, the right-wing Nationalist Movement Party [MHP], although during the campaign, MHP leader Devlet Bahceli slammed Erdogan harshly for the embarrassing corruption allegations against the president. At the same time, a CHP-MHP-HDP coalition is unlikely, as it must bring together the otherwise arch-enemies MHP and HDP.
Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli addresses supporters after the release of preliminary election results, June 7, 2015. (Image source: MHP video screenshot)
The AKP management may be planning for snap, or early, polls but there are hardly any rational reasons for it except to risk another ballot box defeat. Parliament may try a minority government, supported by one of the parties from outside government benches, but this can only create a temporary government.
Two outcomes, however, look almost certain: 1) The AKP is in an undeniable decline; the voters have forced it into compromise politics rather than permitting it to run a one-man show, with in-house bickering even more likely than peace, and new conservative Muslims challenging the incumbent leadership. 2) Erdogan’s ambitions for a too-powerful, too-authoritarian, Islamist executive presidency, “a la sultan,” will have to go into the political wasteland at least in the years ahead.
The AKP appeared polled in first place on June 7. But that day may mark the beginning of the end for it. How ironic; the AKP came to power with 34.4% of the national vote in 2002, winning 66% of the seats in parliament. Nearly 13 years later, thanks to the undemocratic features of an electoral law it has fiercely defended, it won 40.8% of the vote and only 47% of the seats in parliament, blocking it from even forming a simple majority.
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WarSclerotic 
June 8, 2015 at 5:21 PM
So sorry… I couldn’t resist…
Now I have to add War Pigeons….
Taliban capture military canine and flaunt about their POW on video .
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1022349-2/#post11878864
Muslims are deathly afraid of Kufar Combat Dogs (not halal), but this is not surprising considering the hysteria generated on Egyptian beaches by Israeli Attack Sharks
Egyptian Official: Israel Could Be Behind Deadly Shark Attack
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/07/egyptian-official-believes-israel-deadly-shark-attack/
And Hezbollah has been fighting back valiantly against Israeli Spy Eagles.
Hezbollah: We have captured an Israeli ‘spy eagle’ in Lebanon
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hezbollah-We-have-captured-an-Israeli-spy-eagle-in-Lebanon-328880
And who can forget the horror when Iraqis found out that the British were releasing giant “Man-Eating Badgers” during the Iraq war.
Brit troops release badger plague on Basra
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/12/basra_badger_black_op/
More Israeli Spy Eagles
Even the Turks are getting skittish about these Satanic Jew weapons.
“Turkish authorities detained a bird this past summer on suspicion it was spying for Israel, but freed it after X-rays showed it was not embedded with surveillance equipment.”
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hezbollah-We-have-captured-an-Israeli-spy-eagle-in-Lebanon-328880
And even the Saudi’s have been terrorized by Mossad Spy Vultures.
Saudi Arabia ‘detains’ Israeli vulture for spying
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12120259
But fortunately this was found to be a false alarm, and the Vulture in question was eventually released by the Saudis.
On the other hand, the Taliban in Kabul Afganistan have been retaliating quite effectively with their fiendish Donkey-Bombs.
Afghan donkey bomb kills policeman
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9973400/Afghan-donkey-bomb-kills-policeman.html
When you’re dealing with a superstitious people like this who live in a world inhabited by spooks and Jinns and Genies, is it any wonder that they worship a Moon God and a stone-age demonology like Islam?
June 8, 2015 at 5:27 PM
Whoops. scratch that… Wrong article. How’d that happen? see previous article
June 8, 2015 at 5:35 PM
Ty, since posting your response to the wrong article, my truck won’t start and I was just hit with a bad thunderstorm. 🙂
June 8, 2015 at 7:10 PM
Much bad juju.
June 8, 2015 at 6:31 PM
WordPress under attack, i have problems to
June 8, 2015 at 5:28 PM
This can be added to the list: Malaysian official blames deadly earthquake on mountain climbers who posed naked. But don’t worry: