Wednesday, April 3 2019 19:39

ArmInfo. The results of the  municipal elections in Turkey testify to the tiredness of the  electorate, both from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)  and its leader, Turkish President Recep Erdogan. ArmInfo expressed  his opinion on this opinion from Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the  Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of  Armenia.

According to the results of the municipal elections held in  Istanbul on March 31, Ekrem Imamoglu, a representative of the  opposition Republican People's Party of Turkey, gained 48.80%, the  candidate from the ruling Justice and Development Party Binali  Y?ld?r?m - 48.48%.On April 3, the AKP challenged the election results  in Istanbul. According to the head of the city party cell Bayram  Shenojak, the protest was submitted in 39 districts of the city, and,  in general, more than 2.5 thousand votes were not counted in favor of  the ruling party. The AKP also decided to appeal the election results  in Ankara. The ruling party lost the election in the third largest  city of Izmir."In addition to large urban conglomerates - Istanbul,  Ankara and Izmir - in the whole country, the AKP wins the municipal  elections by a significant margin. Nevertheless, when analyzing the  situation, the shift in the electorate's attitudes towards  nationalist sentiments is obvious.  Especially against the background  of how pro-Kurdish Democratic the party of nations is gaining a  modest 4% in general.

 Nevertheless, despite all the harassment by Erdogan of this party,  the persecution of its leadership, this party maintains its position  in the eastern provinces inhabited by Kurds, "- odcherknul  it.According to the estimates of the turkologist, AKP has been in  power since 2002, and Erdogan, who established the regime of one-man  rule in Turkey, was pretty much fed up with Turkish society. And the  repressions that have become tougher after the unsuccessful attempt  of a military coup, the arrests and persecutions of citizens only  stir up the existing discontent. And the defeat of the ruling party  in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, according to Safrastyan, is the best  indicator of these sentiments.Thus, in the light of the trends  observed, not the most comforting, for the ruling party, the  turkologist predicts a significant increase in protest sentiments by  the parliamentary elections scheduled for November of this year.  Nevertheless, a significant margin of safety, coupled with Ankara's  foreign policy primarily in the direction of Syria, will allow,  according to Safrastyan's predictions, AKP and its leader Erdogan to  win another victory in these elections.