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So a cooperative and mayor of a minor town has just taken over the role as the first communist mayor of a province.
Or he has a lit tash
Turkish Communist & Cooperative wins mayoralty
Liam Sanchez
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Ethan Morgan
its not like ive been going on about co-operatives for literally years on here and leftcom trash have told me it iwll never work
Aaron Cooper
It won't work though.
Jackson Evans
It's literally built a communist base in a country that has been famous for its anti-communism though.
Noah Russell
In other news it looks like the AKP might lose Istanbul…
Owen Ward
Lol they'll arrest whoever wins the elections they don't like, just look what they've been doing to HDP candidates
Angel Torres
You're right, and this will likely lead to revolutionary conditions in the country.
Owen Gutierrez
Revolutionary conditions? Maybe. revolution? Hell no. Just look at what happened in the 70's when political violence was running amok and revolution was in the air, it was all utterly crushed under the military's boot.
Carson Campbell
In a conflict with Erdogan vs the people, the military will split regardless: the Grey Wolves won't stand with the Sultan if he is facing mass popular unrest.
Joseph Roberts
It appears Erdogan has lost in Istanbul.
Luke Hughes
I'm expecting a Florida in 2000 level of violence multiplied by a million, in the vote recounting.
Henry Scott
I thought there was barely any violence in 2000 Florida?
Adrian Brown
Didn't some Bush goons storm a voting office, shut it down and possibly cost gore the election?
Mason Evans
I don't remember that being a thing tbh.
Andrew Miller
dayum.. that 'stache is kino as fuck
Levi Thomas
James Perez
Yes. Roger Stone was behind it.
t. In the documentary on him and I've met him in person for an extended period of time
Cameron Brooks
Reports the CHP won Istanbul by 27k votes.
Caleb Sanchez
fucking based, they should make a statue of that man
Nicholas Torres
He's actually a sitting Iraqi MP now.
Logan James
are they any good?
Lucas Nguyen
They're secularist socdems with a history of anti-communism, but the major thing is that Erdogan's AKP lost the city for the first time since 1994. Erdogan's career started in Istanbul, so it is a major loss for him.
Ian Lee
is he in the Sadrist coalition?
Gabriel Myers
Yes.
Christopher Cruz
old school Kemalists, basically Turkey's version of Ba'athism.
Luis Roberts
Well, far more democratic than Ba'athism but this is a very good comparison.
Adam Diaz
actually existing evidence means nothing to the leftcom
James Robinson
Sure, insofar as you're within the military's comfort zone. Go either too Islamic or too leftist they'll hand you a letter telling you to resign. Definitely more democratic than Ba'athism for sure but still not great.
Bentley Hill
That's also a fair point, and add neo-fascist to your list too (the reason for the Enver coup was the fight between Turkicist fascists and Communist partizans).
Also under Kemalism; due to its birth in the fires of war, the military is highly politicised. Like a general's general political leaning: be it constitutionalist, kemalist, islamist (Erdogan or Gulenist), or Pan)Turkicist, are known factors in any political equation.