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In district of Tarlaba?? is shot several times in air. Motorcycle and car tires squeak. Teenagers get on roof of a parked truck and shout: “HDP! HDP! ” Older women and men waving flags or clapping ir hands. The cheering crowd has just learned that prokurdish HDP has cracked parliamentary hurdle of ten percent. She will send 67 deputies to Ankara. It is to remain only success of Turkish opposition in this one-night stay.
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It’s Sunday night, just after ten o’clock. The state news agency Anadolu reports that Recep Tayyip Erdo?an won Turkish presidential election with 52 percent. His most important challenger, secular Muharrem ince of opposition party CHP, who had put on a furious election campaign, should refore only come to 30 percent. But you do not want to believe that in opposition, not with CHP and not at HDP. There is too much distrust in news agency, which in past repeatedly noticed that Erdo?an had high values at a very early stage in elections. The opposition’s hope that it could really win this time was too great.
“How can that be?”
On stairs in front of HDP headquarters in Tarlaba?? sits a woman whose voice is quite hoarse from cheering. Yes, she is delighted with entry of HDP into Parliament, but that Erdo?an should have made it in first round: that makes her stunned. “I watched his challenger, Muharrem Ince, see how he mobilized millions of people in Istanbul alone,” she says. Many surveys had only shown Erdo?an at 40 percent. “So how can that be?”
Turkey Electoral Commission declares Erdo?an to be winner more than half of voters voted for presidential election for incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. That was shared by Electoral Commission. Erdo?an had announced his victory before end of count. © PHOTO: Reuters/Kayhan Ozer
A few meters furr, in stairwell of party headquarters, stands one whose job it was long to find answers to such questions. Ahmet ??k, most famous journalist of country. ??k has a glass of tea in one and a cigarette in or hand, people who walk past him greet him as one of irs.
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A few months ago, a court against ??k and or journalists of government-critical newspaper Cumhuriyet imposed perennial prison sentences. Until a judgment in appeal proceedings, ??k remains free, but he is not allowed to leave Turkey. A few weeks ago, however, ??k quit his employer to run for HDP. “Journalism is my passion. But I can no longer reach people in a press that is equal to 90 percent. So I try it as a politician, “he says.
References to electoral counterfeits
So, Mr. ??k, how could Erdo?an have won? “Under normal conditions, i.e. under free elections, Erdo?an could never win,” says 48-year-old. In social media, videos are being published to show that voting votes in favor of president have been made illegal. However, this information cannot be verified.
??k is a force of a man. When he was given chance to defend himself before his release at beginning of year, he attacked judiciary, president and his party AKP. From ??k, accused was ??k, accuser. “The government works like mafia,” he said n as now. That is what so many people know, so this choice is so special. “They have had enough of reprisals – no matter how this is going on today,” he said. Then he expresses his cigarette and disappears in a room for employees. On door stickers stands “crisis staff”.
