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    The number of unstamped ballots in Turkey is roughly equal to the margin by which “Yes” prevailed.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tu...S?mod=related#

    At this point, the only certain result of #TurkeyReferendum is legitimacy crisis for the electoral system & #Erdoğan's presidential regime.
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    Erdogan once said democracy, for him, is a bus ride. "Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off". Did he just arrive there?

    Erdoğan looks like he's lost, with absolutely no conviction or pleasure in his acceptance statement

    ACTUALLY he has failed.......he was shooting for over 60% and with 51% he can barely move his agenda forward and roughly 50% voted against him..EVEN with a faked coup and locking up his entire opposition.....
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    Expectations after a "yes" campaign win in #Turkey: A new operation in #Syria, similar to Euphrates Shield.

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    Arabs who really believe in democracy used to look up to Turkey as example of how democracy can work in a Muslim country. This is over now.

    Night of the Turkish Delights. Erdogan's men stuffed ballot boxes, allowed illegal votes, disallowed legal ones. Turkish democracy is over.

    This is the first time since 1946 there are serious allegations about the fairness and legitimacy of voting today in Turkey.
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    Oppo HDP's @BaydemirOsman: Discrepancies in vote counts, validating unofficial ballots violated rules, govt rushed result to bury objections

    BREAKING: Erdogan says critics "belittling" result of presidential powers referendum "shouldn't try, it will be in vain." - AP

    Erdogan worked systematically to silence Kurdish voices before referendum. In an election this close... it mattered a lot.

    Police intervenes to break up crowd in front of Election Board headquarters in Ankara.

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    You cannot make this up......!!!!!

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    #BREAKING Electoral board head: Unsealed vote envelopes were also used in past elections

    THEN they even stated they cannot tell just how many "unstamped official ballots were allowed to be counted against Turkish election Laws changed 30 minutes in the ballot counting..

    Estimates range up to 2.5M were illegally allowed into the count...the winning amount of votes was 1M...thus ensuing Erdogan a win....
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    Reuters Top News

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    JUST IN: Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP opposition says the successful challenge of 3 million unstamped ballots could change vote outcome

    Actually if the Election Committee refuses to recount and toss the unstamped votes and are challenged in Turkish Court using the current very valid Election Laws that have not be suddenly changed ...the Court would be hard pressed to not rule in the favor of HDP....even if it means anger coming from Erdogan/AKP and because if they rubberstamp then it well truly reveal that the Court's simply a farce in the eyes of the roughly 50% who voted against Erdogan........

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