Here is the naked truth: Half of those corruption claims in any other
democratic country would be enough for the collapse of the government;
in Turkey it cost only some 5 points of loss in support of Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdoğan’s votes in the local elections on March 30.
It is also true that Turkey has never experienced an election with so much
fraud claims in decades. Power outages in critical districts of
critical cities like Istanbul and Ankara
on elections night, replacing of poll box observers of the ruling
Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) during the vote count allegedly
by street bullies to intimidate observers from other parties,
especially in Ankara, trying to prevent poll observers from being in the
room during voting, in especially the east and southeast of the
country, are some of those claims.
Those claims could have
changed the result in some cities, but let’s face the truth: The
difference between the AK Parti and others is not in the single digits.
Istanbul and Ankara
could have changed the picture, but it did not. The majority of Turkish
voters have closed their eyes and ears to corruption claims, because
Erdoğan told them to do so; he has still such an influence on them.
Source: Hurriyet daily news