Author Topic: [NEWS] Turkey votes to suspend democracy, enact dictatorship (Read 5494 times)

Jairo · April 16, 2017, 07:17:01 PM

Quote from: sources

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39617700

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-referendum-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-supreme-power-latest-count-a7686511.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/apr/16/turkey-referendum-recep-tayyip-erdogan-votes-presidential-powers

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/16/europe/turkey-referendum-results-erdogan/

a few months ago I made >>this news thread<< about a bill that was submitted to the turkish parliament to expand the president's powers from symbolic to executor while simultaneously limiting the powers of parliament -- a dictatorial power-grab, simply put.

today, that vote's passed with a 51.4% YES backing -- many in the country call this result into question, however, as blank and incorrectly filled out referendum votes were still stamped YES. nevertheless, erdogan has seized the initiative to further turn the parliamentary-democracy that is turkey into a presidential dictatorship.

with this bill, the position of prime minister is abolished, the powers of parliament are restricted and ceded to the president, the president is able to enact law, and various government positions like supreme court judges are subject to erdogan's appointment.

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Punished Toxicology · April 16, 2017, 07:18:54 PM

Timestamp · April 16, 2017, 07:19:04 PM

turkey is such a stuffhole...

Mr Queeba · April 16, 2017, 07:19:41 PM

~~I think we know why the coup should have succeeded...~~ actually either way it probably would still devolve to a dictatorship

Master Matthew� · April 16, 2017, 07:22:20 PM

Quote from: Mr Queeba on April 16, 2017, 07:19:41 PM

I think we know why the coup should have succeeded...

The coup was done to get to this point.
All politics, all manipulation.

We saw proof of this when the supposed Coup fired at buildings vital to the democratic structure of turkey.

Ceist · April 16, 2017, 07:22:48 PM

Quote from: Mr Queeba on April 16, 2017, 07:19:41 PM

I think we know why the coup should have succeeded...

the coup was staged.

Drydess · April 16, 2017, 07:28:01 PM

and no one was surprised

Tactical Nuke · April 16, 2017, 07:29:14 PM

Turkey on repeating history

Ipquarx · April 16, 2017, 07:29:39 PM

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you see i was really, really hoping this kinda stuff wouldn't happen

Metario · April 16, 2017, 07:31:35 PM

good. this gives me more evidence to get the gulen schools shut the forget down

Nonnel · April 16, 2017, 07:32:36 PM

At least they decided democratically to suspend democracy

Ragequit · April 16, 2017, 07:33:55 PM

how surprising

Tactical Nuke · April 16, 2017, 07:39:11 PM

Quote from: Nonnel on April 16, 2017, 07:32:36 PM

At least they decided democratically to suspend democracy

democratic dictatorship

Juncoph · April 16, 2017, 07:58:11 PM

called it

what's next? night of the long knives II?

beachbum111111 · April 16, 2017, 08:51:08 PM

I drew up a better map of Turkey