{"id":86756,"date":"2019-04-01T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/01\/is-turkish-poll-shock-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-erdogan\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:20:55","slug":"is-turkish-poll-shock-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=86756","title":{"rendered":"Is Turkish poll shock the beginning of the end for Erdo\u011fan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AKP losses are unprecedented rebuke to Erdo\u011fan\u2019s authority and a backlash is fearedRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan turned Turkey\u2019s local elections into a referendum on his personal leadership. The results, showing his Justice and Development party (AKP) in retreat nationally and losing control of seven of Turkey\u2019s 12 main cities, not counting Istanbul, will thus be viewed as a stinging personal repudiation.The question now is, how will Erdo\u011fan react? The man who has dominated Turkish politics since 2003 is a bad loser, unaccustomed to defeat. He cannot abide criticism in any form \u2013 and despite his claims to the contrary, the big swing against the AKP, on a 84.5% countrywide turnout, amounts to an unprecedented rebuke. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/01\/is-turkish-poll-shock-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-erdogan\" target=\"_blank\">Is Turkish poll shock the beginning of the end for Erdo\u011fan?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKP losses are unprecedented rebuke to Erdo\u011fan\u2019s authority and a backlash is fearedRecep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan turned Turkey\u2019s local elections into a referendum on his personal leadership. The results, showing his Justice and Development party (AKP) in retreat nationally and losing control of seven of Turkey\u2019s 12 main cities, not counting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}