This is breaking news: It seems that fraud was committed during elections in Turkey in 2007. In August of that year, Turks voted for parliament. The result was a gigantic victory for the Justice and Development Party (or AK Parti). They won almost 50% of the votes resulting in 2/3 of the seats in Parliament due to Turkey’s somewhat strange electoral system.
The Justice and Development Party and its supporters celebrated: what a gigantic victory! They now had the chance to pursue their more radical ideas and, not long after, they did indeed seize the opportunity their new power gave them.
According to reports in Turkish media, approximately 3,000 voting papers were found in Kadıköy, Istanbul. Spokesman for one of the country’s main opposition parties, the People’s Republican Party or CHP, 99% of the votes that had been thrown away before being counted were for the CHP.
H/t Ilelebet of Uluslararası Haberler.
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This is not surprising at all! If one analysis their track record for the last few years, the results that came out in 2007 was shocking! AKP did not deserve the victory they got! Down with that fraudulent, Islamic, anti-democratic, anti women, anti Ataturk government!!!!
That’s only in İstanbul, everybody is aware of that it could be in east more easily.I hope didn’t, but i don’t think so. Families are crowded at east and on the day of vote, one of them goes to the vote building and uses for all of his or her family. Sometimes it happens between friends. One of them saying that,:” I will use for all of u, no need to go all together”