Today ~42 million people are voting for the new government in Turkey. 14 political parties and 699 independent candidates.

New York Times says “Election in Turkey May Be a Watershed“. Unfortunately a conservative coalition will form the new government. But there will be independent leftist representatives against Muslim bourgeois. Let’s see what happens tomorrow.

UPDATE

AKP won the elections. This is another sign for the rise of Muslim bourgeois in Turkey. Independents got more votes (blue color on the map) compared to the past elections but not as much as expected in Istanbul. Unfortunately, the rising leftist candidate Baskin Oran couldn’t make it.

The Turkish TV channel NTV released a great real-time elections visualization tool. I watched these maps as the votes were being counted on sunday night. It was quite nice to see the emerging destiny of the Republic of Turkey as a movie.

1st party AKP’s distribution.

2nd party CHP’s distribution.

3rd party MHP’s distribution.

Independents’ distribution.

Source of the images: NTV

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