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I miss those days here in the US were somekind of sexual impropriety would end someone's political career. Now it seems, at least for one US Political Party, sexual impropriety is a requirement to be considered for higher office.
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Other people are saying his voters are more likely to split towards Erdogan. Which is it?
All I know is that the bond market thinks it’s a positive sign, and foreign investors aren’t rooting for Erdogan: ”Investors reacted positively to both the new polls and İnce’s withdrawal from the race, pushing the price of Turkey’s international bonds higher. A US dollar-denominated bond maturing in 2030 was trading on Thursday with a yield of 8.54 per cent, down from about 9.2 per cent at the start of the week. ”Bo…
Just so the relevance here is clear. He claims it is a deep fake.
This improves the chance of Erdogan's main opponent winning the election because opposition votes won't be split across multiple candidates. So despite the weird sex tape business, this is a positive event if you think Turkey should move forward from the authoritarianism and incompetent economic management of the Erdogan era.
Forward may very well be more of the same or worse. Only time will tell if their system is systemically and irrevocably broken.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other people are saying his voters are more likely to split towards Erdogan. Which is it?
All I know is that the bond market thinks it’s a positive sign, and foreign investors aren’t rooting for Erdogan: ”Investors reacted positively to both the new polls and İnce’s withdrawal from the race, pushing the price of Turkey’s international bonds higher. A US dollar-denominated bond maturing in 2030 was trading on Thursday with a yield of 8.54 per cent, down from about 9.2 per cent at the start of the week. ”Bo…
This is not Kemal Kilicdaroglu who is the main challenger to Erdoğan, and in fact could help his chances. 1. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-la...
> The polling organisation Metropoll predicted late last month that İnce voters would predominantly give their votes to Erdoğan’s AKP, the CHP, with some also going to the far-right Nationalist Movement party and the nationalist IYI (Good party) in the parliamentary race.
polls are all over the place for this election, other than telling that it will be contested.
https://twitter.com/ozersencar1/status/1652771126714482689?s...
> The polling organisation Metropoll predicted late last month that İnce voters would predominantly give their votes to Erdoğan’s AKP, the CHP, with some also going to the far-right Nationalist Movement party and the nationalist IYI (Good party) in the parliamentary race. > The high-profile deployment of deepfake videos has already hit Turkey’s 45-day election cycle, after Erdoğan played an alleged deepfake that clai…
Hilariously, those are the four parties. This sentence claims the voters will predominantly give their votes to one of the other parties.
https://twitter.com/ozersencar1/status/1652771126714482689?s...