Can Erdogan Steal the Election? (Or Will He Retire Quietly?)

Can Erdogan Steal the Election? (Or Will He Retire Quietly?)

  • Erdogan is facing mounting challenges to defend his post. His main rival Kilicdaroglu is making progress in the polls, as the opposition controls the narrative.

 

  • Yet, the notion among experts that Erdogan is invincible is difficult to break. The Kilicdaroglu skeptics claim Erdogan will rather steal the elections than swallow a career-ending defeat.

 

  • Turkish elections did indeed experience wide-spread cheating in the past, always engineered by AKP and its allies.

 

  • What can be the leading methods to steal elections?  Ballot stuffing, manipulation of voter rolls and finally brute force.

 

  • In this podcast I argue that none of these methods are effective in Turkey’s rapidly evolving socio-political environment.

 

  • I spend considerable time shooting down the theory that high courts and the Army will collude with Erdogan to preserve his reign if he loses a more-or-less free election.

 

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Published By: Atilla Yeşilada

GlobalSource Partners’ Turkey Country Analyst Atilla Yesilada is the country’s leading political analyst and commentator. He is known throughout the finance and political science world for his thorough and outspoken coverage of Turkey’s political and financial developments. In addition to his extensive writing schedule, he is often called upon to provide his political expertise on major radio and television channels. Based in Istanbul, Atilla is co-founder of the information platform Istanbul Analytics and is one of GlobalSource’s local partners in Turkey. In addition to his consulting work and speaking engagements throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East, he writes regular columns for Turkey’s leading financial websites VATAN and www.paraanaliz.com and has contributed to the financial daily Referans and the liberal daily Radikal.