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6 months

These local elections will go down in Turkish political lore as an historic turning point for two simple reasons: 🟠President Erdoğan's AK Party has suffered the worst defeats of its 22-year existence, 🔴The opposition CHP has surpassed even its own expectations 🧵to follow👇

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1 year

For the Turkish overseas election, round 2: It looks like the number of voting days have been REDUCED in countries that backed Kılıçdaroğlu in round 1: Britain, Ireland, Canada, the US. But NOT Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium – which voted Erdoğan. It's a bit fishy 🧵👇

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1 year

Wow. No resignation.

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This results night has begun like none other since the AK Party came to power: swathes of western Turkey bathed in red. It’s a remarkable sight for those of us who’ve been watching Turkish elections since before the turn of the century.

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2 years

BIG NEWS: Our monthly tracker of Turkish opinion polls saw Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AK Party slip below the 30% mark for the first time last month. It was a long time coming: a quick thread of the results so far.

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3 years

Big moment: our monthly poll of Turkish polls records more support for the opposition alliance than Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's governing coalition for the first time. It's a remarkable shift since 2018. Turkish voter attitudes are shifting gradually, but clearly.

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1 year

The journalist @MuratYetkin2 is on FOX. He says he's been told Erdoğan instructed the Anadolu Agency and state broadcaster TRT to "keep the difference between him and Kılıçdaroğlu at around 10 percent until I make a statement".

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1 year

This campaign video denouncing migrants – however carefully-worded it might be – is a clear sign that Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s campaign for the second round of the presidential election will be angry and nationalist. The cherry blossom is a thing of the past.

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Türkiye için #KararVer

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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, reading from a prepared statement, says the results are being impeded with repeated appeals as votes are being counted. Some individuals ballot boxes have received 11 objections, he says. "I repeat: do not block this people's will."

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3 years

Well, it's happened. For the first time in many, many years, Turkey's opposition takes an opinion poll lead — this one from @avrasyaanket AK Party: 28.4 (-0.2 from Oct'21) CHP: 30.1 (+1.6) HDP: 10.3 (+0.3) MHP: 7.3 (+0.3) İYİ: 11.9 (-1.3) DEVA: 5.9 (+0.2) Others: 6.1 (-0.9)

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1 year

Yes, an interview with President Erdoğan aired simultaneously on umpteen channels on Friday night. But during it, he said that if he lost the election, he would go. It’s the first time in this campaign he’s contemplated losing. That’s pretty remarkable.

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6 years

Turkey's blanket ban on alcohol advertising could be a "potential conflict" if a beer company wants to sponsor the event. Remember that @Carlsberg has sponsored every UEFA Euro tournament this century. #EURO2024

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1 year

Very strange things happening in Turkey's presidential election today. Barely an hour ago, Muharrem İnce announced he's pulling out. Now, Sinan Oğan has cancelled a rally and is reportedly planning an announcement in Ankara tomorrow. Could this soon be a two-horse race?

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6 years

Turkey's bid to host UEFA Euro 2024, which will be decided next week, has a number of significant problems, according to the UEFA evaluation report released today. THREAD coming up on what they say is wrong with the Turkish bid #EURO2024

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1 year

Despite last weekend's election defeat, the umpteenth of his career as CHP leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu remains in post – yet things are in motion in Turkey's largest political party. It is plausible, but by no means certain, that he's on his way out. Here's how.

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1 year

The Supreme Electoral Commission announces just 18% of the overseas vote -- thought to number around a million ballots -- has been counted so far. If you didn't know already, we're in for a long, long night.

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3 years

It was a month of records in our regular Turkish poll tracker: 🟡Lowest share yet for governing AK Party 🔵Lowest share yet for nationalist MHP 🔴Highest share for centre-left CHP in a year ⚫️Highest share ever for right-wing İYİ 🟣Pro-Kurdish HDP comfortable despite lawsuits

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8 years

Confused by Turkey's proposed executive presidency? You're not the only one. Click for an interactive explainer:

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2 years

And we're off, folks. President Erdoğan signs a document officially calling president and parliamentary elections for Sunday 14 May.

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2 years

Turkey heads to polling stations in precisely two months. As the campaign gets underway, our monthly tracker of opinion surveys shows a steady but diminishing lead for the governing AK Party.

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1 year

Erdoğan lost. Kılıçdaroğlu underperformed. Sinan Oğan is a kingmaker. My bleary-eyed take on the night’s events.

Turkey’s election: are we heading for a second round?

Michael’s analysis at the end of a long, long night.

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1 year

NEW: Turkey's opposition says for the first time that the presidential election is "very likely" going to a second round.

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@jamesinturkey

6 months

In what is almost certainly not a coincidence, Istanbul’s newly re-elected mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu appears in front of the crowds just as President Erdoğan begins his traditional election night speech. Tonight is the first election night the status quo has been challenged.

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10 years

Just to show surprise at the Arınç furore isn’t limited to Twitter, here’s CNN Turk presenter @nevsinmengu ’s reaction http://t.co/ewNSGC7WnR

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@jamesinturkey

2 years

One of these four people are likeliest to be on the ballot paper to face Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey's most important election since multiparty democracy began in more than 75 years ago. We break down each candidate in around 500 words. 🧵👇

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@jamesinturkey

1 year

FOX TV reporting all six leaders of the opposition alliance, plus the mayors of Ankara and Istanbul, will be making a joint televised statement shortly.

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3 years

The Turkish public's support for the governing AK Party fell sharply in April, according to our tracking average of opinion polls. It happened in the month of a successful opposition anti-corruption campaign and popular anger at the way coronavirus restrictions were implemented.

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3 years

Turkish polling average of surveys conducted in May 2021 🟣strongest HDP rise since October last year 🟡governing AK Party and MHP have plateaued ⚫️another record high for İYİ, which is sweeping up all disillusioned government supporters these days

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2 years

🚨📺NEW: We're excited to be starting a Turkish politics miniseries! Five snappy episodes, in English, looking at how today's parties formed and what they believe in. Part 1 is about @herkesicinCHP and the centre-left and you can watch it here from Monday.

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1 year

This is significant: pro-government A Haber reported Erdoğan's victory speech will be not from the AK Party headquarters, as in previous years, but from the presidential palace. The lines between party and state are blurring even further.

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7 years

With subtitles in English, here's that remarkable Erdoğan message that people in Turkey hear whenever they make a phone call (MT @nazliavs )

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1 year

When people come to chronicle this election, this’ll be a big moment. The opposition candidate for president explicitly calls himself an Alevi and appeals to young voters to overcome prejudice by voting for him. There’s a loud, tiny minority who think his faith holds him back.

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Alevi.

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5 years

Things Ekrem İmamoğlu’s victory is not: ❌ A “reversal” of the 1994 local election; ❌ The restoration of press freedom or judicial independence; ❌ The end of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s career; ❌ Evidence the “he who wins Istanbul, wins Turkey” mantra will play out in full.

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3 years

So. Turkey's governing parties have finally revealed their hand and told us how they want to reform the electoral system. It's how the AK Party and MHP want to change things to ensure they can win next year's general election. Join me for a quick 🧵

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@jamesinturkey

2 years

In the Turkish poll of polls for June 2022: 🟡Historic low for the governing AK Party 🟤Historic low for its nationalist partner, the MHP ⚫️Incremental rises for for the opposition parties

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6 months

For years, it’s been the accepted view that only a centrist party can wound the AK Party behemoth. We might be witnessing an election where the blow comes not from the centre, but from the fringe. Around the country, voters for the religious Yeniden Refah are swaying contests.

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@jamesinturkey

2 years

The opposition candidate making it plain his time in office isn’t open-ended. “Getting rid of Erdoğan is the easy part. I want to put Turkey back on its tracks so that other leaders can make this country competitive.” He adds: “I’ll then go spend time with my grandchildren.”

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2 years

Birleşeceğiz ve kazanacağız. Ama kime karşı?

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2 years

Turkey’s former parliament speaker last night sent up a test balloon to gauge what the public mood would be if this summer’s elections were postponed – possibly until next March. At the risk of mixing metaphors: it hasn’t gone down well.

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Kamuoyuna saygıyla duyurulur.

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Things Ekrem İmamoğlu’s victory *is*: ✅ Proof Turkish elections are unfair, but still free, and voters will not take instructions; ✅ Evidence opposition parties can succeed if they work together; ✅ A sign Turkey’s next leader need not be handpicked by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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1 year

All the ridiculous rumours about Erdoğan’s health – that he’s had a heart attack, that he’s been poisoned by the Russians and is at death’s door – serve only to disguise what is actually true about the president: He’s running the most feeble election campaign of his career.

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2 years

Yes, it’s nice to see @TheEconomist running a Turkey cover – the first for many years. A great graphic. But you can only buy it in mainland Europe. In the UK, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, it’s literally a Mickey Mouse cover.

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1 year

Michael Rubin again analyses Turkey with all the subtlety of a balyoz cracking an Antep fıstığı ❌ He was taken ill earlier this week, not earlier today ❌ An independent media DOES exist ❌ It’s not just his cronies in the bureaucracy ❌ A democratic transition IS plausible

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What Happens if Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan Dies? - #Turkey #Erdogan @AEIfdp

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1 year

That's especially problematic for London, where there were dozens of ballot boxes and tens of thousands of voters, causing long queues. But 79% of those who did vote in Britain backed Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

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7 months

Did President Erdoğan really just announce a plan to retire? “For me this is a final, under the authority of the law this election is my last election, and the result will be a bequest for those who come after me.” 🧵👇

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1 year

This is the first time in any election I remember that President Erdoğan has urged his supporters and observers not to abandon the ballot boxes.

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1 year

14 Mayıs seçimlerinin uhulet ve suhulet ile büyük bir demokrasi şöleni şeklinde gerçekleşmesi, Türkiye’mizin sahip olduğu demokratik olgunluğun ifadesidir.

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1 year

To be perfectly clear: a nationalist pivot is the only strategy he has left. Turkish nationalists are the single biggest floating constituency – uncomfortable about Erdoğan, unsure about Kılıçdaroğlu – left in this election. Everyone else has pretty much made up their minds.

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1 year

Take 🇬🇧Britain. The YSK – Turkey's Supreme Election Council – announced last month that if a second round in the presidential election were needed, ballot boxes would be set up in London, Edinburgh, Manchester & Leicester. Voting would be 20-24 May, it said. It's now 20-21 May.

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6 years

@SerkanRecber5 @carlsberg Sen öyle san kardeş

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5 years

Turkey's 2019 EU membership progress report makes for very, very grim reading. This year's theme is the word #backsliding , appearing 29 times. Another recurring word is "concern" — as in, "we are worried" — which is mentioned 80 times. Thread follows with some "highlights":

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1 year

He needs Oğan votes quite a bit, actually. His prospective presidency depends on it.

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Bloomberg reporting that Kilicdaroglu is saying if he wins he will send all refugees home. Really, come on. Do you need Ogan votes so much? Turkey has been a beacon and should be commended for hosting so many refugees with nowhere to go.

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2 years

So. Still no candidate for president named after the leaders of some of Turkey’s biggest opposition parties – and one or two of the small ones too – met yet again on Thursday. Their meeting was still significant, though. 🧵

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1 year

In the 🇺🇸US, polling stations are in Boston, Chicago, Houston, LA, Miami, NYC, Long Island, South Jersey and Washington DC. Long Island and South Jersey were 20-21 May only; the others were 20-24 May. Now they're all 20-21 May. And it's not like the US is a compact country.

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3 years

CORRECTION: Our Turkish poll tracker figures for April were slightly incorrect because of a data input error. The correct numbers are here. The big picture remains the same: the AK Party is still plumbing historic lows in Turkish opinion polls.

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1 year

With a week to go until polling day, MAK are saying the momentum’s swinging behind the opposition and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will win outright in the first round. ERDOGAN: 45.4 (+1.7 since Apr’23) KILIÇDAROĞLU: 50.9 (+3.1) İNCE: 1.7 (-1.7) OĞAN: 2.0 (+0.9)

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1 year

This is it. The day billed as the most consequential election in Turkish history. It's not hyperbole: voters today have a choice between two very stark visions of how they should be governed not just for the next five years, but the next generation. A quick🧵on where we are.

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4 years

Turkish voter intention, poll of major polls conducted in November 2020 🟠Steady AK Party slide continues; ⚫️İYİ party surge holds steady; 🔵DEVA still tiny, though greater than Gelecek, possibly because its party congresses have drawn news coverage

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2 years

Here’s possible drama: reports that the pro-Kurdish HDP will WITHDRAW from the May 14 election and stand its candidates under the Greens and Left Party banner. Time to become accustomed with this logo very quickly 👇

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3 years

We're almost at the end of August but a few of you have asked about our Turkish poll tracker for July 2021. Apologies for the delay, but it's here now: the AK Party/CHP gap stands at 8.2 percentage points, the narrowest we have on record.

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2 years

For those plotting a switch to Mastodon, it’s worth bearing in mind that recent changes to Turkish law mean that the house rules for the top Turkey-based server are…problematic. It’s best to avoid

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2 years

A dramatic split in the Turkish opposition today: Meral Akşener takes her Good (İYİ) Party out of the Nation Alliance. She says they cannot support CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as a unity candidate for president because the public think he won't win.

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1 year

The veteran @kondaarastirma traditionally puts out one poll before every Turkish election; this time it's shared four from 1-2 April to 6-7 May. Immediate takeaway for the presidential vote? We're headed to a second round. But the trend suggests it could all be over on Sunday.

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4 years

Turkey’s president mulls suspending its diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates as retribution for starting diplomatic relations with Israel, a country with which Turkey has diplomatic relations.

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BREAKING — Turkey may suspend the diplomatic relations with the UAE or withdraw her ambassador, Erdogan says

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Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is on the verge of changing its leader. Is this a seminal moment in Turkish politics, or merely the final whimper of the movement defeated by President Erdoğan in May?

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This is a comprehensive thread about the mechanics of how ballots are counted and verified. It’s true: the rules make it difficult to commit large-scale fraud without anyone noticing. But it IS possible for those rules to change while votes are being cast. It happened in 2017.

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Thread on why "large scale fraud/massive ballot stuffing" is not possible. No, you cannot steal the Turkish elections. Unfortunately as always we've seen a lot of articles/comments the past few days & weeks claiming "the elections will be rigged/massive ballot stuffing". We've

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And for our regulars, here's how the numbers broke down by party: 🟡AK Party remains above the psychologically important 30% mark; 🔴No poll has a CHP lead yet; 🟢Such is Gelecek's plight that some pollsters no longer report its numbers separately; 🟤Saadet is in the same boat.

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Some believe President Erdoğan's decision to expel 10 western ambassadors lays the groundwork for a snap general election. Others say a referendum is imminent. A reminder to those in the latter camp: the government has neither the seats nor obvious partners to call a referendum.

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VERY early results from Turkey’s local election show: 🔴 strong CHP leads in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Adana 🔴 narrow CHP leads over AK in Bursa 🟠 narrow AK Party leads over CHP in Eskişehir, Hatay and Denizli 🟠 narrow AK Party lead in Şanlıurfa over the religious YRP

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Pleased to announce a troll has, for the first time, demanded to know why this account has not been rebranded ‘James in Türkiye”

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🚨Introducing Kavra, an election podcast in the run up to the Turkish election. We're running SHORT episodes every day, or as near to that as possible, to brief you as the campaign gets underway. Find us on Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or via the link below 👇

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For the CHP, there's no point beating about the bush: this an astonishing triumph. Not just because the party has retained or seized all the mayoralties listed above, but because in many cases it now looks set to control many city assemblies too – like Istanbul and Ankara.

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6 months

Another first for this election: an utterly deserted AK Party HQ in Ankara.

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6 months

The reason it is a defeat for the AK Party is quite plain: it was President Erdoğan who set the parameters of this election by saying nothing short of winning back control of Turkey's biggest cities would be acceptable. Those conditions were not met.

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1 year

All of the countries listed above backed Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in the first round of Sunday's presidential election. But voting days are unchanged in 🇩🇪Germany, where over 700,000 people voted in 17 different cities and voters overwhelmingly backed Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday.

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The AK Party failed to win back the biggest hitters: not Istanbul, not Ankara, not Antalya. It also looks like it lost strongholds like Balıkesir, Bursa and Denizli by big margins. Even CHP-held towns that looked certain to be lost, like Hatay, could not be swayed.

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1 year

Let's go back to Erzincan, where nearly half the vote is in and the shift is dramatic.

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1 year

For 🇨🇦Canada: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver have all been switched from 20-24 May to 20-21 May. The same picture for 🇦🇺Australia's Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. In 🇮🇪Ireland and 🇯🇵Japan, voting was 20-22 May. Now it's 20-21 May.

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1 year

Now, it's an inescapable fact: there are more voters in central Europe than elsewhere. By comparison, a little over 161,000 people voted in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and Japan. But the authorities knew this when the voting days were announced last month.

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1 year

He also: • toured the Gulf in an investment drive • was one of the few world leaders to admit phoning Putin during Progozhin’s march to Moscow • exchanged ambassadors with Egypt again Feels like less like a tilt, and more like the same transactional Turkish foreign policy

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Only 6 weeks after #Turkey election, Erdogan has: • Accepted Sweden in NATO • Supports Ukraine in NATO after war • Hosted NATO chief twice • Hosted Zelensky • Pushing for 🇹🇷 to enter EU • Named Econ. chiefs w Western outlook Hard not to argue that 🇹🇷 tilting West after 🗳️

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Is there a link to which candidate these countries voted for in the first round? Couldn't possibly say. But this is the second round of a presidential election in which every vote counts. Suddenly, there's less time for some of those votes to be cast.

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No change too to: 🇦🇹the six cities in Austria 🇧🇪three cities in Belgium 🇫🇷nine cities in France 🇳🇱four cities in the Netherlands where over 450,000 people voted – again, overwhelmingly for President Erdoğan.

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3 years

Hot takes like this by @NikosMichailid4 — which, incidentally, I think is utterly wrong — raise an important question about how to label political parties in a way that accurately explains their ideology to those less familiar with Turkish politics. A short thread follows.

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2 years

Growing hints today that a deal is in the offing between Meral Akşener's İYİ Party and the CHP. The proposal: if Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu wins the presidency, the mayors of Ankara and Istanbul would become his deputies. If that solves the crisis, was it worth the weekend's fuss?

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6 months

Spoiler: local gains did not translate into a national victory, and most of the gains were reversed in the next local elections five years later. In short, Turkey's opposition might be enjoying its greatest success of the past two decades, but nothing is inevitable.

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This is interesting: Anadolu Agency says 59% of the vote is in. On the left, the state of play when Anadolu was at this stage back in 2018. On the right, the state of play right now. Erdoğan's lead is much closer to the 50% mark and the gap with his opponent is much narrower.

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@jamesinturkey

2 years

So. ChatGPT makes stuff up.

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10 months

Spot the difference On the left: Turkish authorities permit new political party name with a remarkable resemblance to a banned movement. On the right: Turkish authorities reject new political party name with a remarkable resemblance to a banned movement.

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@jamesinturkey

2 years

We appear to have swung back towards 18 June as the date for Turkey's first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2018. That's what three officials today told @Reuters – the government's preferred outlet these days for making its announcements.

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@jamesinturkey

6 months

It isn’t often we can talk about Turkish polling triumphs but @metropoll can rightly claim to have called the Istanbul race. And this wasn’t just a lucky one-off: they ran two polls in March with the same result and stood behind their research. Turkey Pulse is worth your money.

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6 months

Metropoll Research conducted two studies in March regarding the IMM Presidency election within the "Pulse of Turkey" series. The measured vote support of the presidential candidates in these surveys is presented in the table below.

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@jamesinturkey

7 years

This by @efekerem is a fascinating graphic contrasting 2015 AKP+MHP+Hudapar votes & Sunday's Yes vote. Rise seen only in Kurdish southeast.

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@jamesinturkey

1 year

The opposition CHP is putting the team that won Istanbul from the AK Party in charge of the second round of its presidential election campaign.

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@jamesinturkey

6 months

Smaller central Anatolian towns like Afyon, Uşak and Kütahya may also have fallen – and that's pretty remarkable, because the assumption for decades has been that conservative, traditionalist places like these could never support the urban-minded CHP.

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@jamesinturkey

4 years

Our poll of Turkish polls in February 2021 finds: 🟠Erdoğan's AK Party at a record low; 🔵Akşener's İYİ at a record high; 🟣the governing AK-MHP coalition some way off a parliamentary majority; 🔴Yet no clear route for the opposition either.

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@jamesinturkey

4 years

Turkish parliamentary voter intention, poll of major polls conducted in January 2020 🟡 İYİ records highest level of support in its history; 🟠 Governing AK Party at post-election low, albeit by a whisker; 🔵 Further erosion for the far-right MHP, but a strong core remains.

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@jamesinturkey

6 years

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's office releases 291 pages of presidential decrees that comprehensively restructures government — on a Sunday. Anyone who was already combing through the 206 pages issued last Tuesday now has double the work on their hands.

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@jamesinturkey

3 years

Turkey’s opposition takes one giant leap towards confirming it’ll field a unity candidate against Erdoğan after @meral_aksener — one of the biggest contenders for the presidency — announces she’d rather be prime minister instead.

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@jamesinturkey

6 years

The pro-Kurdish HDP's leaders are holding a press conference. No TV channel in Turkey is covering it. They're only set to be the third-largest party in the new parliament, after all.

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@jamesinturkey

6 years

A CHP press conference declaring President Erdoğan had not secured enough votes to win the election outright was broadcast only by Fox TV. Other news channels showed the AK Party victory rally.

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@jamesinturkey

2 years

Do we expect August to be a quiet month? It certainly wasn't in Turkey: the governing AK Party continued its signs of a small recovery in our monthly tracker, which reflects Turkish polling numbers. The gap with the main opposition CHP has never been so narrow, though.

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@jamesinturkey

6 years

@carlsberg Most significantly of all: the Turkish Football Federation has "no specific project related to the EURO tournament to ensure the protection of human rights". This could be the TFF's biggest failing and the excuse some European FAs will be after to vote for Germany. #EURO2024

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@jamesinturkey

4 years

Here’s a surprise: Turkey’s finance minister Berat Albayrak — also President Erdoğan’s son-in-law — has resigned. He cites unspecified health problems. There’s been plenty of talk of him succeeding Erdoğan as AK Party leader, but he leaves the economy in a dreadful state.

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