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It can't be done with a presidential decree. You need to either gather the support of 400 MPs to directly pass the constitutional change or with the support of 360 MPs and hold a referendum.

AKP is gearing to change election laws after the elections (might happen in a few years after the elections). %40+1 will be enough to be elected as the president in the first round for the leading candidate. 2 term limit will be increased to 3 term.

While you are writing this Turkish bureaucrats are begging London loan sharks on the orders of Erdogan, to lend them dollars with a %10+ interest rate. You are living high on copium.

If things stay on this trajectory I expect a significant devaluation after the elections. There is a vast dollar scarcity in the markets. London bankers offer dollar loans at an insane interest rate Gulf Arabs are no better they offer only a few percent lower interest rates. I wanted to withdraw...

Depositors can't withdraw FX from most Turkish banks. Things are not looking good.

BTW Democrat Party (DP) president Gültekin Uysal also raised concerns about Ümit Özdağ being too Kemalist for his taste. Yes, that is a legit concern but Erdogan is a cunning politician he sees the shifting political inclination of voters. Old voters that are staunch Erdogan supporters are...

Tekirdağ/İğneada? It is Kırklareli/İğneada

True. It seems like Erdo agreed to everything on the table but economic policy. IMHO this is huge. If Özdağ can make the other side agree on the same terms we can safely say that Turkish nationalists won regardless of who wins. This will be an incredible and very rare success for nationalists...

Ahmet Davutoğlu and Ali Babacan raised objections to the protocol offered by Ümit Özdağ. Ahmet Davutoğlu rejects sending back the temporary asylum seekers while Ali Babacan rejects the guarantees about the first 4 articles and article 66 of the constitution and the harsh stance against religious...

The numbers look really good.

After meeting with Ümit Özdağ, Kılıçdaroğlu is likely to meet with retired general Osman Pamukoğlu. Kılıçdaroğlu is expected to offer him the Ministry of Defense or some kind of anti-terror expert role. Özdağ might have pushed the name.

Özdağ and Kılıçdaroğlu agreed on a protocol. Kılıçdaroğlu will present the protocol to other members of his alliance. Ümit Özdağ expected to declare support to him tomorrow if no last-minute objections come from the Nation Alliance members. Ümit Özdağ will stay neutral if members of the Nation...

Just as expected. Expect Ümit Özdağ to declare support for Kılıçdaroğlu (or stay neutral if KK doesn't make the offer he wants) tomorrow. They are playing a well-known game. Kurdish tribes in the southeast push their own candidates from multiple parties so it doesn't matter who wins tribe always...

Sinan Oğan is expected to announce support for Erdoğan. Ümit Özdağ might declare support for Kılıçdaroğlu. They are playing a good cop bad cop game. They are supporting both sides to maximize gains.

After Kızılelma Baykar will focus on a better Kızılelma, space systems, and Baykar is also considering a stealth TB-2/3-like drone.

We should make peace with Assad on the conditions of crushing YPG, securing our borders, and sending refugees back. We have no mission to bring democracy to other people. We shouldn't be involved with internal matters of other countries, we shouldn't try to topple bloody dictators. It is none of...

This is exactly what I said. The decision rests in the hands of TAI engineers.

#Fakenews?

Don't be so sure. After the election, AKP will put a constitutional change on the table in 2026 or 2027. AKP will start negotiating with small parties that will leave CHP(SP, DEVA, Gelecek) HDP, and IYI Party. AKP will offer the release of Selahaddin Demirtaş for support of the changes. Similar...

True but Kılıçdaroğlu should have respected that. People warned him over and over again. He was so sure that a combination of melting economy, earthquakes, and votes from the southeastern Turkiye would carry him.