“Our help is in the Name of Yahweh who made heaven and earth.”
(Psalm 124: 8)
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CNN—Turkey’s Erdogan victorious in election that grants him unprecedented power:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has emerged victorious in a high-stakes election, seeing off the most serious challenge yet to his political dominance and tightening his grip on the nation he has ruled for 15 years.
Defeating the twin threats of a reinvigorated opposition and a weakened currency, Erdogan declared himself the winner even before official results were confirmed.
With 97.7% of the votes counted, Sadi Guven, chief of Turkey’s Supreme Election Board, said Erdogan had won an absolute majority, avoiding a runoff against his principal challenger, Muharrem Ince. State media put Erdogan on 52.5%, well ahead of Ince on 31%.
“The winners of the June 24 elections are Turkey, the Turkish nation, sufferers of our region and all oppressed (people) in the world,” Erdogan said in a victory address from a balcony at the AKP’s offices in the capital Ankara in the early hours of Monday morning.
The results were a blow to Ince and his Republican People’s Party, known as the CHP, who ran a spirited campaign that threatened to force Erdogan into a damaging runoff and deny his party control of parliament.
Conceding defeat, Ince warned that constitutional changes ushered in by Erdogan earlier in the year represented a threat to the country’s democracy.
“A single person is becoming the head of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary and this is a concern for a threat to the survival of the country,” he told journalists. “Turkey has departed from democratic values and Turkey has broken its ties with the parliamentary system which it had.”
“We’re now in a single man rule — there’s no mechanism to prevent arbitrary rule. We continue to have great concerns about this situation.”
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SnyderTalk Comment:
There are enough people in Turkey who understand what they just lost to suggest that a resistance movement will grow to take out Erdogan. Dictators always attract assassins, and Erdogan has lots of enemies.
Like Hitler, as long as Erdogan is alive, he is a serious threat to everyone. Some people won’t appreciate my reference to Hitler, but I think we are seeing in Turkey now what we saw in Germany in the 1930s.
No matter what happens next, there will be global ramifications. Thankfully, Yahweh is in control. Sit back and enjoy watching Yahweh demonstrate His control.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
