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it`s a classic trick of Turkish govt & propaganda machinery to disseminate initial results that massively favor regime candidates in order to discourage opposition, making them abandon observation posts. Reposting/retweeting those ”results” serve those purposes. So please dont...
Here is official state news agency’s track record of reporting AKP votes in 3 last elections: kicking of in average 25% above the final results!!pic.twitter.com/uCfmug3EuC
retweeting or in any way disseminating those deliberately manipulated peaks is in fact the *opposite* of what reporting is supposed to be based on, i.e. fact-checking and objectivity
in fact, if one takes that average of 25%+ kick-off as any indicator, opposition candidate Ince´s final results must be phenomenal!
these, for instance, are the first initial results announced by one of the few truly independent news platforms about elections @adilsecimnet which are very different from the state one.pic.twitter.com/X08fZW1CQx
at this pace, it’s likely that there’ll be a 2nd round in pres. elections & HDP’ll pass 10%. Atm, however, there is no point pushing for an “analysis”, for all hangs on shoulders of those 1000s defending ballot boxes. Wait a few hours out of respect for their courage & sacrifice.
this is the least those observes working *literally* in a building on fire in Nigde, refusing to leave their posts deserve;https://twitter.com/dokuz8haber/status/1010923259884457984 …
e.g. in the course of 45min (18:45-19:30), state news agency dropped Erdogan’s figures from 59.1 to 56,7 while Ince’s climbed from 26,5 to 28,4.
besides the one un-affiliated one quoted above, reporting on the minute-by-minute results from *any* source is futile, b(c) the fate of tonight will be decided by “persuasion”, whichever side could persuade (by whatever means) its supporters as well as opponents that it has won!
...and after 16yrs opposition seems to have finally managed to persuade at least its own supporters that it can and will win. insofar as the oft-criticized, used-to-be feckless opposition in Turkey is concerned, this is no insignificant achievement. they are finally ”believers”!!
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