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Golightly

The AKP are back in, the MHP will have 17% of the populist vote, and several pro-Kurdish MPs will be in parliament. Thoughts, opinions, everyone?
Will the tanks start rolling? If you're walking down the street with someone of the opposite sex, will you have to prove that you are related or married to them? Is this the rise of the Koylus? Will having a large 'tache and smoking Maltepes become a requirement by law? Is this the end of the huge bouffant hairstyle, flattened as it will be by the headscarf?

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

Yes...I think that strong family planning restrictions should have been put in place about 30 years ago in rural areas....nevermind.....Power to the villagers!!!!

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

Golightly · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:23 am Post subject:

Malibu is indeed living hell, but it could have been worse: a half-bottle of Dubbonet. Or the situation I have been in before, where I went round to one of my student's house, and he presented a bottle of 'vintage' red wine - Kavaklidere, or something similar if I remember.
'I have been storing this for many years', he said ' and I think now is the special occasion to open it'.
God knows where he'd been hiding it, but it was absolutely foul, really musty and vinegary. All the time I'm trying to pull a polite face whilst retching, and he's going 'ah yes, what a vintage wine this is!'

readdave · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

How do you feel about the election results?
Is Turkey now a more safe place to be?
What else can you tell me?

yaramaz · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:50 am Post subject:

More safe than when? Than yesterday? Than 5 years ago? And what is safe? Not getting shot in the streets by leftists or rightists or having random military coups or public executions? And are we talking about Turkey in general, or just the western bits where most of the foreigners congregate or are we thinking about the east or...?

It seems to be ok. Haven't been killed recently, but then again, I'm not a journalist.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

Things will go on pretty much the same as it has for the last five years . Expect more taxes on booze and fags (sorry censors ) I mean ciggies , and inflation and interest rates to move down and property prices to rise . I don't think black will be the colour of choice either .

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

I think the k�yl�s rose long ago.

Funny thing about this election is that, for all the fuss and to-do leading up to it, everything now is, um, exactly the same as it was before the election.

Except maybe the nationalists have a better idea where they stand.

scb222 · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Posts: 175 Location: Brisvegas, Oz

yes, precisely. exactly the same as before - except for one major difference... now the military cannot intervene. it was a very clever and righteous ploy by the ak party to selflessly call elections when they knew darn well they were going to win, and hence have the right to instigate their mandate. what can anyone do now if they decide to put their old presidential choice on the "throne"???!!! surely now, it's what "the people" want. of course in a severely polarized country like turkey "the people" are always going to be those that are less educated and more religious. birth control may have helped, by less corruption and a better spread of wealth throughout the country would have been a better alterative. sadly, as eastern turkey is not very livable, life there is never gonna be as prosperous as along the coast or on the european side so this problem will continue til eternity.

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

But can't the military still intervene? I think it would be more of a calamity, but I thought their job wasn't to preserve democracy, but secularity.

But yeah, if they do it now, it looks a whole lot worse. On the other hand, it's never been the military pandering to the EU, but the government...

007 · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

So when can we expect the restoration of the Caliphate ? And the New Siege of Vienna ?

007 · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

When Scotland becomes Kingdom.

yaramaz · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

When the American republican party got into power in 2000 and 2004, no one headlined their win as Evangelical Christians Win Election, but the main internet headlines all screamed Islamists Take Hold of Turkey... I'd much rather be governed by the AK Parti than by George Bush's minions. And I think the AK folk have done a better job of keeping faith and state separate.

runeman · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 124

Yaramaz wrote: