What was the phenomenon of Turkish elections?

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Turkey is still in a big political shock. Takes. Because in the municipal elections of this country, a heavy and unprecedented defeat was inflicted on the Justice and Development Party and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

For the first time in the last 22 years, this party lost the position of being the first party in Turkey. And now it is the second party.

Many media in the region and the world consider Akram Imamoglu’s victory in Istanbul as well as the decisive victory of Mansour Yovash in Ankara, the capital, as great political shocks, and these media have fueled the idea that Akram Imam Oglu or Mansour Ivaş were the most surprising phenomena of the Turkish elections, but the final statistics of the parties’ votes say something else.

Because both politicians are not unknown faces, and in fact, both of them in 2019. They created a surprise and in the last 5 years they have always been at the center of political developments.

But an unknown politician, who no one expected to win, suddenly became an election phenomenon and attracted the attention of all political and social circles in Turkey.

He is none other than Fatih Erbakan, the leader of “Refah Party”. A party that, in every sense of the word, created a surprise in the recent Turkish municipal elections and not only became one of the most important factors in the defeat of Erdogan and the ruling party, but also showed strength against Erdogan’s opponents.

Many people may think that Akram Imamoglu or Mansour Yovash were the most surprising phenomena of the Turkish elections, but the final statistics of the parties’ votes say something else.
The big competition for the key to 1,444 municipalities
The final results of the vote The votes of the most important and famous parties in Turkey in the recent elections, which were held with 78% participation and the votes of the citizens, are as follows: equivalent to 15 million and 800 thousand votes.
2. Justice and Development Party led by Erdogan:
32.42% Adil 14 million and 855 thousand votes.
3. Re-Refah Party led by Fatih Arbakan:
6.96 percent of votes, an average of 3 million and 190 thousand votes. The Democracy and Equality Party or the tail party of the PKK satellite organization:
5.77 percent of the votes, equivalent to 2 million and 645 thousand votes. 2 million and 100 thousand votes.
7. Zafar party led by Omid Ozdagh:
2.44% equivalent to 1 million and 118 thousand votes.
8. Saadat party led by Temel Karameloglu:
1.30% equivalent to 594 thousand votes.

This list shows that 8 Turkish parties managed to get a total of 97% of the total votes of the people. and some other parties belonging to important and old politicians did not get even 1% of votes.

For example, politicians such as Ahmet Davutoglu, Ali Babajan, Moharram Inceh, Dogu Princek and others suffered a heavy defeat. And all of them remained below 1%.

The above votes resulted in the number of municipalities in Turkey being divided between the parties as follows:
1. Justice and Development Party 549 municipalities.
2. People’s Republic Party 433 municipalities.
3. Nationalist Movement Party 228 municipalities.
4. Democracy and Equality Party 85 municipalities.
5. Prosperity Party 65 municipalities.
6. Good Party 32 municipalities.
br/> 7. Hizb Vahdat Bozor 20 municipalities.

At first glance, an important contradiction is revealed and every reader can ask: how is it possible that Hizb Vahdat Bozor, which is not in the list of the first 8 parties, is 20 take over the municipality, but the Zafar party as the seventh party and the Saadat party as the eighth party on the list do not take over even one municipality?

The answer is: Istanbul Municipality has spent money to get it and has not got any results. But Vahdat Bozor party, even though it had few votes, spent those low votes to compete in areas where, for example, even with 6,000 votes, it is possible to win the mayorship of a small district.

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For the first time in the last 50 years, the People’s Republic Party, He was able to become the first party again. Justice and Development Party came second. But what happened that the party founded by the son of the late Prime Minister of Turkey was able to take the third place?

This was one of the most important challenges of the election. In a short period of time, Fatih Erbakan not only overthrew the powerful Meral Action Party, but also the Kurdish Party and established his position as the leader of the third most powerful party in Turkey.

Mohammed Ali Fatih Erbakan was born on January 1 1979, he is the third child of the late Prof. Dr. Nejmuddin Erbakan, the former Prime Minister of Turkey and the leader of an Islamist political movement called the National Perspective.

He completed his secondary education at Imam Khatib Religious School in Ankara. He completed his high school education at Ayranji High School in Ankara. Then he graduated from Bashkent University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering with honors.

He went to England to study for a master’s degree, but due to the death of his mother, he had to return and finished his master’s degree in He completed electrical and electronics engineering at Bashkent University and later received his doctorate in management from the same university.

After his father’s death, he established the Arbakan Foundation, but he refused to work with his father’s old students in Saadat Party, and on November 23, 2018, he re-established Refah Party with 99 members of the founding board.

“Refah Party” was one of the most important Islamist parties in Turkey in the last decade of the 20th century, which was founded by Nejmuddin Erbakan and was closed by court order. Fatih Javan, inspired by those events, re-named his party as Refah.

Fatih Erbakan supported Erdogan in the 2023 elections and joined the presidential coalition. But in the municipal elections, Erdoğan ignored the capacity of his party and refused to give any concessions. Erbakan also announced that he will nominate candidates throughout Turkey and separate himself from Erdoğan. He sent his sister’s husband to the field as a candidate in Istanbul and nominated him in Ankara and Izmir as well.

In the southern and southeastern provinces of Turkey, he was also able to win votes in several areas, and the metropolis of the important and strategic province. Shanli Orfa fell into the hands of this party, which is a tremendous achievement for a fledgling party. It is the same province that is the birthplace of Abdullah Ocalan, the stronghold of Erdogan’s pro-Kurdish Kurds and has a combination of Kurdish-Arabic and Turkish.

Erbakan has announced that the number of official members of his party has exceeded six hundred thousand and every day between 1 and 2 thousand new members visit the party offices to register.

Erbakan said: “Demanding citizens are change They are fed up with injustice, double standard, bank interest, debt, arrogance of government administrators, rent-seeking municipality, heavy taxes, inflation, high prices, poverty and wages below the hunger line, and they can’t even pay their bills. Municipalities affiliated to the ruling party are drowning in debt. Why? Because they are extravagant and show off, instead of solving the nation’s problems, they deal with the brand and model of the mayor’s luxury cars. Our nation is tired of all these bribes, rents, and corruption.” Fatih Arbakan also said about the government, “The government’s duty is not to distribute firewood, coal, pasta, and charity among the nation. The duty of the government is to increase the purchasing power and welfare level of the nation”.

In recent weeks, the leader of the Prosperity Party repeatedly criticized Erdogan’s foreign policy and demanded a complete stop of commercial and political relations between Turkey and the Zionist regime. .

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