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Epaminondas
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« on: June 23, 2019, 12:24:12 PM »

This is indeed fabulous news.

People who oppose Erdogan will take the fact that the runoff happened as proof that Turkey is a dictatorship.
People who support him will contend that its results show that Turkey is a democracy.

In truth both are correct: Turkey is state in which the separation of powers dont exist.
The little yes-no-but reasoning is seductive, yet there can be no democracy is the political parties are gagged in the public eye and if elections are re-run when the president demands it.

Turkey is no longer a democracy since the 2015 hung parliament was ignored for no reason.

More worryingly for Europe, Turkey outside of Istanbul has now fully veered away from its secular Kemalistic roots.
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Epaminondas
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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2019, 01:12:19 PM »

Anyone who considers the alternative in a country from the Near East. How well are the neighbours of Turkey doing?
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