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GhostofJohnMuir posted:so is there a specialty agency you go to for crisis actors or do the big ones just carry some in house
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Sadr has made an alliance with Abadi... while keeping his previously made alliance? quote:Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr have announced that their blocs are joining forces in a bid to create a new government after weeks of political tensions following last month's parliamentary elections. quote:The joint statement did not mention an alliance al-Sadr formed earlier this month with the pro-Iranian former fighters under Hadi al-Amiri, whose list came second in the election with 47 seats. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/iraqi-pm-al-abadi-shia-leader-al-sadr-announce-alliance-180623210258947.html
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I think a lot fewer people in Syria would have died if the US had been clear about this sort of thing a long time ago: https://twitter.com/AbuJamajem/status/1010610652430372868
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Is there a syrian airbase close to busra al hariri? Will we see another gas attack as assad and his russian onlydogooders start ramping up their next assault?
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Salt Bae. Known for sensually pouring salt. Not kidding.
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Also, steaks covered in salt and forearm hair.
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I'll try to post a detailed response to your questions later, but meanwhile here is a great article about Erdogan and AKP I liked: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/turkey-erdogan-election-kurds/563240/ml
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Polls closed in Turkey, results expected in the next 6 to 7 hours.
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Mans posted:The good party doesn't look good at all Yep. Here's a little English language interview where a spokesman explains how there is no war in Syria and it's time to reptariate the invading Syrian refugees for anyone wondering what the "anti-immigration" thing in fspades post means https://twitter.com/trthaber/status/1009878224766210051?s=19
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The YPG's getting pretty heavy handed in Raqqa, accusing the organizers of protests of being ISIS sleeper cells and using that as a pretext to shut down access to the city and establish a curfew.
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Pretty stark difference between state run media's declared interim results and the independent fair elections platform https://twitter.com/bbcturkce/status/1010934692273709056?s=19
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Erdogan only at 53% now. 90% of votes counted. There are reports of "irregularities". Perhaps he needed to cheat to get him over the finish line, though he could still fall below it even in the official tally. I have no idea about the results for parliament.
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kustomkarkommando posted:Pretty stark difference between state run media's declared interim results and the independent fair elections platform I think Adil Seçim Platformu's numbers are more accurate to how people voted, but Anadolu Ajansı's are more accurate to the election results.
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Cat Mattress posted:I think Adil Seçim Platformu's numbers are more accurate to how people voted, but Anadolu Ajansı's are more accurate to the election results.  Trip report from Adana: People hella pissed. I go back to Istanbul tomorrow, so I'll be sure to let you all know where the best place to find Cigkofte is during a riot.
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Schizotek posted:
gently caress yes. This guy knows what's good. Also, that's an easy one, Kurtulush av. In Sisli.
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Torrannor posted:Erdogan only at 53% now. 90% of votes counted. There are reports of "irregularities". Perhaps he needed to cheat to get him over the finish line, though he could still fall below it even in the official tally. From what I'm reading that 90% counted vote is only claimed by state media and not an actual number that any vote counting office has given so who knows really...
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The opposition backed indpedent agency is now tying p much level pegging to the state agency fyi
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kustomkarkommando posted:The opposition backed indpedent agency is now tying p much level pegging to the state agency fyi And what does this mean in plain language, because I can't decipher what you're trying to say here. Do the official and independent results now agree with each other or is one election organization loving the other with a strap-on dildo?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And what does this mean in plain language, because I can't decipher what you're trying to say here. Do the official and independent results now agree with each other or is one election organization loving the other with a strap-on dildo? They pretty much agree now. Official state media:  Opposition aligned independent reporter:  Neither of these the official High Electoral Council but Adil Seçim was established specifically because of accusations of state media misreporting results kustomkarkommando fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jun 24, 2018 |
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wait there was actual belief that Erdogan wouldnt win??
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LeoMarr posted:wait there was actual belief that Erdogan wouldnt win?? Lots of people thought he could be forced into a second round, and that a longer campaign could give Ince an advantage.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Lots of people thought he could be forced into a second round, and that a longer campaign could give Ince an advantage. Not with majority turkish news as controlled as russian news.
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LeoMarr posted:Not with majority turkish news as controlled as russian news. He only just got over 50%, it was clearly a real possibility.
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There's pretty large protests all over tehran right now over the value of the rial crashing. Bazaar shopkeepers are on strike which is significant because they are part of the reformists base. https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee/status/1011182088974823424?s=19 Even spotted a god bless reza shah chant which is rare in Tehran.
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How long until Trump or Bolton or whoever the gently caress opens his stupid mouth and causes these protests to fizzle out? Place your bets, place your bets...
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Well there goes Trump's plan to privatize the Afghanistan war with mercenaries: https://twitter.com/meekwire/status/1011267712000159744 quote:NEW from @ABCinvestigates — Robert Mueller has “total access” to phones, computer of Trump ally, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, whose ties to Russians are being probed
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The responses to the Tweet (by random people) are all totally insane, but I guess maybe only totally insane people bother directly replying to political tweets? Also they keep calling him "king". I guess there is also the high chance that Turks have no idea that Maduro has utterly ruined his country and is likely measurably the worst 21st century world leader who has not committed genocide (in terms of how his own countrymen have fared under his rule). Also I am kind of surprised that the vote seems like it was not tampered with? People are really so eager to give Erdogan dictatorship for life, even though they're not in the middle of an economic downturn? God drat. I hope for Turkey's sake, at least, that his eventual successor is less grossly incompetent and malicious than Maduro.
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I don't know how big of a role they played, but Turkish Syrians pretty universally rallied around Erdogan because of all the anti-refugee rhetoric from the opposition. I'm sure there's some other segments of society that were driven away from the opposition for one reason or another. Erdogan definitely has his cult followers tho.
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Part of it is also just that the people who support Erodgan also supported other right religious parties before, and that divide goes pretty much to the fall of the Ottoman Empire. They are never going to vote CHP and IYI seemed more like opportunism. Basically, Erdogan's strength is from the fact that Turkish society is pretty much permanently divided and therefore has fallen into a stasis where it is very difficult to get rid of him.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:He only just got over 50%, it was clearly a real possibility. Which is version 2 of voter fraud. 53% victory is a lot more believable than 99.999% WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jun 26, 2018 |
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Taliban has just declined an extension of the truce. Sadly the government should have waited before playing that out. Agreed to a second ceasefire later on as to not connect the events. Why would Islamic fundementalists extend a ramaddan truce after ramaddan. Sad
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