Monday, May 29, 2023

Turkish Election Victory for Erdogan Leaves Nation Divided - BBC News

May 29, 2023 | Recep Tayyip Erdogan's supporters are celebrating after Turkey's long-time president won Sunday's vote, securing another five years in power. "The entire nation of 85 million won," he told cheering crowds outside his enormous palace on the edge of Ankara. But his call for unity sounded hollow as he ridiculed his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu - and took aim at a jailed Kurdish leader and the LGBT community. The opposition leader denounced "the most unfair election in recent years".


Re-electing Erdogan into office is tantamount to ‘turkeys voting for Christmas’! (Please excuse the pun!) Clearly, Turks show every sign of being masochists. Good luck to Turks in the coming years! In the next five years, they are going to need all the luck they can get. Erdogan believes in using low interest rates to fight inflation; he believes in allowing extremely high inflation to run rampant and thus allowing people's savings to be seriously depleted; he believes in shutting down free speech; he believes in jailing his opponents; he believes in denying LGBTQ+ people their human rights; and he believes in denying women their rights, too. Yet so many Turks are able to rejoice over his re-election into high office. Go figure! – © Mark Alexander

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Es ist rätselhaft, daß in der Türkei auch nach all den wirtschaftlichen und politischen Schwierigkeiten, zum Beispiel, unerhört hohen Teuerung und unfassbar niedrigen Zinsen, welche die Ersparnisse der Türken schnell wegschnitzen, ist Erdogan wiedergewählt worden. Zudem sind die Rechte der Türken auch ebenso schnell weggestohlen worden, Rechte wie Frauenrechte und Schwulenrechte. Erdogan hat die Präsidentschaftswahl trotzdem gewonnen. Dieser Gewinn ist wirklich schwer zu verstehen; und vermutlich für viele Türken auch ebenso schwer zu verdauen! – © Mark Alexander