He can’t. The elections can not be held later than June 2023.

Even during a state of emergency?

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> ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan's government is inclined to hold Turkiye's elections as scheduled in June, having cooled on the idea of postponing due to this month's devastating earthquake, three officials said on Wednesday.

> The government official said a May election, as Erdogan previously planned, would leave little time for election authorities to prepare and make logistical arrangements for the voting of those affected in the quake zone, home to some 13 million people.

> Another senior Turkish official also said the idea of postponing the elections had been shelved.

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>This election needs to be postponed until the consequences for my decisions aren't immediately upon me.

Good news for Sweden.

On a linguistic note: Isn't the word "drops" a bit ambiguous here? They mean he abandoned the idea. But colloquially, to drop something can also mean to release something. To drop an album for example.

I truly hope he loses and we got rid of him. Are there any proper candidates available? Or are they forbidden like in any dictatorship.

His boasts of helping to circumvent building codes and a ham-fisted disaster response should help see him off at the polls.

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It definitely is. I was assuming he expressed an idea to postpone elections.

I'm not Turkish but some Turkish guy said in a previous discussion that it's illegal to postpone national elections unless the country is at war.

If Turkey is still in a state of emergency 4 months from now than they definitely shouldn't reelect Erdogan.

All of his opposing parties (6 in total) have formed a coalition to win against him.

The other candidates are meh at best but it’s a common saying among youth that they would vote for “a slipper” if it was running against Erdogan.

Well, there’s still time for that.

He will try every little excuse he can to somehow make it work out for him. These current dictator wannabes in democracies,in the last 5 years, have tried all the lies and ways to stay in power. Trump, Erdogan and Bosinairo have weaselled their way through government to stay in power but in the end democracy has prevailed. Fingers crossed.

> ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan’s government is inclined to hold Turkiye’s elections as scheduled in June, having cooled on the idea of postponing due to this month’s devastating earthquake, three officials said on Wednesday.

Title is a bit misleading

He will not lose, mainly for two reasons. Firstly, Turks love him and secondly, he has no credible opponent.

No and no

Polls from mid-2022 show him losing to several different candidates, and I don’t think recent events will boost his chances.

If he wins, it will probably be because he cheated in some way. Since his party controls the Electoral Committee, they could probably get away with a lot of fuckery short of outright fraud.

There’s an alliance of six parties that are planning to put out a joint candidate to oppose Erdogan, but it’s not clear who they’ll pick yet.

Of the potential candidates, Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas are probably the strongest candidates. CHP party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu is another strong possibility.

Not all of the opposing parties, the main Kurdish party (the HDP) is sitting on the outside of the alliance, though it is probably quietly supporting it.

Turkish voters are very nationalist, and any independent Kurdish representation gets inevitably accused of links with the PKK, so letting the HDP formally into the alliance would be electoral suicide.

If Turks love him, than is that the biggest problem. Although I doubt you are right on that

Mid 2022 is nearly a year ago! The Ukrainian grain deal and the recent earthquakes cemented his image as a powerful statesman.

Putin and Erdogan should never be underestimated! No matter what they do or say, no matter how suicidal their policies might be, they are practically worshipped by the vast majority of their population. Talk to the average Turk in Germany and you'd think Erdoğan is some kind of demigod.

The opposition lacks a credible leader that could pose a realistic threat to Erdoğan's re-election.

Didn't he start up the civil war against the kurds again last time they tried this were he was expected to lose?

Well that's good and hopefully he will lose.

Frankly Erdogan needs to lose or Turkey will stop being a democracy and fail in general.

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Didn’t the recent earthquakes show that the Turkish earthquake grants were at best severely misappropriated?

Erdogan isn't like Trump or Bolsonaro. Unlike them, the vast majority of the country's population supports him. Barring another major earthquake that kills hundreds of thousands, he will easily win the elections.

In fact, tragedies like this one make the voters rally behind what they perceive to be a strong leader. His potential opponents are extremely weak in that aspect.

Not if it is factual and it comes out he weekend construction laws or sanctioned short cuts in building permits.

This means he found a way to bypass losing, correct?

Not without NATO involvement that is.

Oh you poor soul. Erdogan is a dictactor and Turkey is absolutely not a democracy. Its amazing how people do not see the writting on the wall.

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He is a terrible power-hungry leader but he has only kept his power through majority vote so far. This is about to change.

Here is hoping. Ever since the staged coup I have considered Erdogan an autocrat like Putin.

He is as much of a criminal as Putin but his grip on power is not comparable.

But yes fingers crossed.

That guy is such a piece of shit.

This is being done to "preserve democracy", because the Earthquake damage will make it hard for Turks to vote, right?

I would never be so rude as to suggest that any delay would give Erdogan more time to give his opponents a heart attack, because that would just be cynical.

Even though his opponents do not currently "seem" depressed, you never know when they might commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head...twice.

/s

>He is as much of a criminal as Putin but his grip on power is not comparable.

The difference between a dictator and a wannabe dictator.

If the earthquakes keep coming they could be.

I would definitely vote for an inanimate object over a dictator. The inanimate object would just not get anything done, which is clearly better. Any and all actions taken by an authoritarian like Erdogan are self-serving, so they rarely do any good for their people.

This is true, also important to note that it has to be an official declaration of war. So any limited scale military operations would not really count. Considering even Putin didn't/couldn't officially declare war on Ukraine, I find that possibility highly unlikely.

The Turkish language variant of the page shows more recent polls.

The most recent one is from Jan 27 to Feb 2nd and it shows Kılıçdaroğlu winning against Erdoğan with 46.3% to 40.1% in the first round, 48.2% to 40.3% in a potential run-off, with 11.5% undecided.

That was still before the earthquake though. It will remain to be seen what effect the earthquake and Erdoğan's response to it has.

Of Course He Did.

"Wake up! New Erdogan election postponement just dropped!"

Man this planet atm. So many fucked up countries at the moment. We got this prick Erdogan, Iran, China, Russia. Just trash

Make sure you relax building codes again to get more votes!

Who could have seen this coming …

Why shouldn’t he?

“Let us all forget that my own personal interference dropped building standards to a dangerous low and the few tens of thousand of dead people, only then we can proceed”

I fear it’s not off the table from someone like him.