Turkish presidential candidates and the political parties that support them

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  1. r/Europe likes to think that Erdogan will lose this election but that’s not possible, either by fraud or just because there are still people that support him, he is winning this. At this point him losing sounds as absurd as Putin losing his seat.

  2. Erdogan: conservatives + Turkish Islamonationalists + Kurdish Islamonationalists + Turkish national communists + social democrats

    Kilicdaroglu: social democrats + Kemalists + Islamists + Kurdish nationalists + conservatives + communists + Liberals

    Yeah, we’re officially fucked up.

  3. So I know AKP is conservative and Erdoğan is in a coalition with the MHP, and I know Cumhuriyet is opposition together with HDP, but what are the Memleket and Adalet parties?-Who are they led by and which ideology do they follow?

  4. Has HDP officially announced support for Kilicdaroglu? I’d assumed they’d hold off an any kind of official stance since they’d be aware that could act as a kind of poison pill for his popularity.

  5. Can you write something more about each of them? What are their political histories and intentions? What are their chances in this elections?

  6. Is there any chance that Erdogan loses? Can he be defeated by elections? Will he concede his defeat? I honestly can’t imagine that a strongman like Erdogan can be defeated by anything other than a revolution, but I sincerely hope that you, Turks, will be wise enough to put an end to his rule in the voting booths.

  7. Center-left, center-right, Turkish Nationalist, Kurdish/Leftist, Communists, Conservative Economic Liberals to Libertarians and all in one coalition on the right.

  8. Without knowing (or googling) anything about these politians and parties, I will try to guess how they lean looking at the logos.

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    First:

    I see some turkish symbols, crescent moon and stars. Also a rose and what not. I guess that is right wing and also extreme right.

    Second:

    Don’t see much of a pattern in colours or symbols. So these would be the center parties that sometimes side with the left and sometimes with right.

    Third:

    Only one party, that is interesting. I would guess something with a dogmatic view. Maybe a party that is religious influenced or of a particular region within the country.

    Fourth:

    Loads of parties. I see many natural symbols (animals, plants, water…) these are certainly eco o green driven parties. These usually fall on the left side. I also see some classic left symbols (hand of worker etc) so I expect to have also extreme left parties here. Maybe communist parties. I would not expect anarchist here. Also center left because there are some classic symbols that indicate a more moderate view.

    How did I do my Turkish brothers and sisters?

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  9. If anyone also has a question, I checked it out. The last two presidents of Turkey had moustaches, and before them there were three without moustaches.

  10. There’s a good and just enough amount of confidence.

    And then there’s these two clowns in the middle and their presidential campaign.

  11. Are all these parties statistically or regionally or significant or most of them have sub 1% voter base. Is this somehow inherited from the general tribal thinking still going strong in the middle east? (My subjective impression is that the countries between the Bospours the Himalayas are very fragmented in language, ethnicity, ideology, religion, …)

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