Turkey General election - November 1st 2015

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MHP are not the Sweden Democrats.

That's true. They're much worse.

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In fact no Turkish party that has ever formed part of a government does. I dislike the AKP and a lot of nasty things can be said about aspects of their rule (particularly in recent years) but when people talk about Turkey there's a often strange amnesia about what Turkish political life was like before they took power (i.e. from your standard issue boilerplate 'liberal' perspective things were certainly not better back then).

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Well he might... but I wouldn't if I were in his shoes. Instead I would brief that things were worryingly close: rally to the polls to defeat the old guard people!

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But what if he intends to poison his tea?

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