'Turkey is the largest democracy between India and Germany and it election results will reverberate a across a vast region.' So said the Washington Institute’s resident Turkey watcher Soner Cagaptay, looking forward to the country’s May 14 elections.
"Turkey is the largest democracy between India and Germany and it election results will reverberate a across a vast region." So said the Washington Institute’s resident Turkey watcher Soner Cagaptay, looking forward to the country’s May 14 elections.
Erdogan does not trust the people to choose correctly. He believes his authority comes from God, not from the people. This is why he described himself a quarter century ago as the servant of Sharia [Islamic law] and imam of Istanbul rather than as mayor. He believes those who do not interpret religion his way do not have the right to empower themselves just because they may attract votes.
In 2005, Mehdi Karroubi, a two-time parliamentary speaker, went to sleep leading the ballot count, only to wake up in third place, knocked out of the final round vote. This allowed hard-line candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to triumph. Four years later, the regime claimed Ahmadinejad won a second term in an election beset by fraud. Iranians poured into the streets to protest, but Iran’s leadership did not care. Regime ideology trumped voter preference.
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