I dont know the details for Hatay but it might be bc of the same reason why İstanbul and Ankara did. People got strated to be bored of unethical governers with the mask of Islam. They are bored of Islam’s usage for their political gain and then doing all the dirty jobs. They are bored of Erdoğan’s hate speaches that separates people in the country. He was calling CHP and İYİ Party aupporters terrorists. Erdoğan and his company are killing Islam for Islamism and the reaction is increasing. Istanbul mayorship is regarded as an indication for presidential elections. AKP had around %50 in 2015 but they had %40 last year’s general elections. They will turn to %30 in the next with this ratio if they dont correct theirselves, and that seems unlikely atm.
Maybe that is your reasoning. From the analysis I have read, the main concern is economy and inflation, and the inflation is induced by the West. However the bust of the construction/building industry is down to bad management of the AKP.
And I don't understand why you are talking as if their voter base diminished, they didnt. AKP have always had around or below 50% in Istanbul and Ankara. The 3% and 1.5% swings aren't that significant and fall under margin of error. What is significant is CHP-IYI-HDP have successfully made a well worked coalition and combined their votes together.
But this in turn will probably cost HDP dearly in the next general election. I can't see them passing the 10% threshold, which means a clean sweep for the AKP in Southeast.
As for ideology, the ideological AKP have remained as solid as ever. Konya, Erzincan, Trabzon, etc are still under their firm control.
On the other hand Thrace and Izmir are still under CHP, although Edirne is slowly shifting to AKP.
And I would also add that it maybe failure of the AKP to field competent candidates. Some of the places where they lost like Hatay, Adana, etc Erdogan would have clean sweeped with a 15 percent gap.
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I dont know the details for Hatay but it might be bc of the same reason why İstanbul and Ankara did. People got strated to be bored of unethical governers with the mask of Islam. They are bored of Islam’s usage for their political gain and then doing all the dirty jobs. They are bored of Erdoğan’s hate speaches that separates people in the country. He was calling CHP and İYİ Party aupporters terrorists. Erdoğan and his company are killing Islam for Islamism and the reaction is increasing. Istanbul mayorship is regarded as an indication for presidential elections. AKP had around %50 in 2015 but they had %40 last year’s general elections. They will turn to %30 in the next with this ratio if they dont correct theirselves, and that seems unlikely atm.
It is wrong for AKP to use conservative politics but it's not wrong for CHP to use Kemalism?
Majority of CHP voters don't vote for CHP because they believe CHP will actually move the country forward. The vote for CHP because they hate the ideology of the AKP.
CHP can put a goat as a candidate in Izmir, and the goat will win no matter what AKP does.
So the divisive, identarian politics is by Kemalists and the elite, privileged white Turks who have sidelined Muslim Turks for 70 years and kept Turkey a third rate country for decades with the help of military.
CHP is lucky they didn't get banned for repeatedly violating democracy.
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Are you insane or something like that. Why would any sane muslim want to see a kemalist victory anywhere in the world. This is baffling to me.
Do happen to belong to one of these mushrikeen sects within islam or what? because something is wrong here
He is a gulenist, Erdogan recently destroyed his sect not only in Turkey but around the world. So basically to him, Erdogan is the devil.
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yeah, same old "blame the west, blame the west" another thing. reason cumhur ittifak's vote is not under 50 percent and akp won so many votes is because military in southeast forced kurds to vote akp. EDIT: and yes, adnan menderes was an islamist. i dont know much about turgut ozal, but he sure got corrupt, and he was right wing, so something can certainly be said about right wing socially conservative politicians.
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funny thing is that your party requires electoral fraud and media manipulation and foreign intervention of pakistanis and arabs and somali fanboys OUTSIDE of turkey and aktrolls and bribery (major haram) and mafia harassment and mass jailing and false flag coups (punishable by death in sharia given many died and people died in prison under false accusations), and funding terrorists (punishable by death in sharia), and theft ((punishable by amputation of a hand in sharia), and letting go of child molestors to appease the religious hypocrites to stay in power.
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another thing, under erdogan violence against women has exploded as has teenage pregnancies and teenage drug and alcohol use. how would you like it if that was your child? i have learned my lesson. never vote for an islamist EVER even if they are the lesser of two evils. "the moment you add a drop of oil to a cup of water the child learns that water kills" (a quote i made up)
Adnan Menderes' was centre-left, he campaigned for religious freedom for Muslims and restored the Azan that's it. The airport in Izmir is named after him, so out of many things he's definitely not some religious politician.
You mean those Somalis and Pakistanis somehow manage to vote for AKP? They should be so lucky, they are stuck with a former Playboy as prime minister.
Force Kurds to vote what? If that was the case they would have gotten Diyarbekir, not smaller provinces . AKP have been trying to win in Diyarbekir for a long time, have campaigned very hard, but separatists sentiments are still strong in that province. Mus, Van, Mardin, etc will eventually come around.
Anyway under 10% HDP can't remain in parliament, so AKP will clean sweep South east next election anyway. It will be over for the HDP unless they enter into the coalition with CHP. And if they do that IYI party will lose most of it's nationalist votes.
