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Flash if these prices from numbeo are correct like a 2 person meal in ok restaurant being 80 liras (10 euros) in Antalya it is very "affordable" but that also means Erdogan scewed up your personal liquidity big time and I do hope situation recovers swiftly. In any case meetup in Turkey sounds great, a lot of stuff for local history nerds too.
 
Erdoğan and his main ally supposedly have agreed to present to the Parliament a bill that proposes bringing the death penalty back.
 
Like you could get death for murder, or just for treason and such (military)?
 
Anybody paying attention to the elections in Brazil? Jair Bolsonaro, the military junta loving far-right bigot is about to become the President, feeding off the Brazilians' negative sentiment toward the left-wing PT, which has been in power for a long time, mainly due to their widespread corruption scandals. The central figure of the party, Lula, is in prison for corruption, while his successor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached, also due to corruption charges.

It appears to be a Trump vs. Hillary on steroids situation, with the left-leaning candidate being seen as the face of the corrupt establishment, and the right-leaning candidate being a far-right populist and a political anti-hero. It's on steroids due to the fact that while Hillary was accused of corruption due to her Wall Street links while PT is a socialist party and has been accused (and charged) of corruption within the government, and Bolsonaro is unapologetically a fascism-symphatizer and holds pro-military dictatorship, pro-torture, anti-secularist, sexist and homophobic beliefs.
 
Brazil is fucked either way. I posted in the football thread about famous footballers supporting Bolsonaro, and lots of other celebrities.
 
Bolsonaro is widely considered to be the most pro-American candidate in Brazil since the 1980s. PSL members have said that if elected, he will dramatically improve relations between the United States and Brazil
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Kazakhstan just renamed Astana, their capital, "Nursultan" after Nursultan Nazarbayev.

You just have to let out a sigh.
 
Local elections in Turkey today.

Without a doubt the most significant local elections in the history of the Republic, acting more or less like a vote of confidence for the presidential system officially implemented with the general elections of June 2018. The extension of the alliances formed in the general election to the local elections in many provinces as well as the campaigns certainly reflected this sentiment. It is also significant as it is the first election where the Erdoğan regime is faced with an ongoing economic crisis.

Expected to be a very tightly-contested election in many prominent provinces and could have significant ramifications for the future.
 
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Local elections in Turkey today.

Without a doubt the most significant local elections in the history of the Republic, acting more or less like a vote of confidence for the presidential system officially implemented with the general elections of June 2018. The extension of the alliances formed in the general election to the local elections in many provinces as well as the campaigns certainly reflected this sentiment. It is also significant as it is the first election where the Erdoğan regime is faced with an ongoing economic crisis.

Expected to be a very tightly-contested election in many prominent provinces and could have significant ramifications for the future.
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@The Flash it looks like the opposition won Ankara and is close to taking Istanbul but some suspicious stuff is happening with the coutning there.
 
The opposition (alliance between CHP and İYİP) took the three largest cities (Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir) in the country. It's the first time Erdoğan's AKP has been defeated in Istanbul and Ankara since its foundation, and the first time in 25 years neither city will be governed by Islamic conservatives. The opposition also took three other cities among the Top 10 largest in the country (Adana, Antalya, Mersin) that had been governed by AKP or its ally, MHP, and now governs 7 out of the 11 largest cities in the country (the aforementioned + Eskişehir).

Certainly a massive slap in the face for Erdoğan's AKP. Losing Istanbul and Ankara is an absolute disaster for them, having governed the cities for so long and being undefeated. Ankara was very tightly contested in the previous one, but Istanbul had never even been a close call in the past. Miraculous victory for the opposition there.
 
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He spoke in an accepting tone yesterday. Seemed to concede the defeat, in an "everything happens for a reason" way and tried to energize his crowd by pointing to the successes.
 
There were clear taints on the election though. The state-run news agency that provides the results effectively put a blackout on the Istanbul results as the opposition candidate closed the gap with the AKP candidate and was about to overtake him. The count got stuck at 98.8% for 14 hours straight. They've only just updated the results to show the opposition candidate in the lead.

The AKP candidate declared himself the winner just before this blackout attempt occurred, he didn't make an appearance afterwards. Erdoğan's speech as well as the downward swing of AKP votes seemed to contradict his declaration. In the morning it came out that AKP teams put up posters on the streets thanking Istanbul for their votes. They've started to remove them, though.
 
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