Turkish President Erdogan has just decided that instead of holding elections in 2019 as they had been originally scheduled, they will now be in June of this year:
BREAKING: Erdogan calls for early elections in Turkey https://t.co/SdDNHqShjI pic.twitter.com/3Co0rB5vmB
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) April 18, 2018
Turkey to hold presidential and parliamentary elections June 24
— Ahval (@ahval_en) April 18, 2018
Erdogan says Turkey to hold early elections June 24 2018 @AFP
— Fulya Özerkan (@FulyaOzerkan) April 18, 2018
Turkish president #Erdogan calls for an early presidential and parliamentary elections in #Turkey pic.twitter.com/xZt2IgMrzo
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
The reason this is important is that it will officially put the country and Erdogan’s ‘presidency’ under the new constitution they adopted for last year, which essentially makes Erdogan the all powerful sultan that he’s always wanted to be.
In related news, Erdogan is already calling on Muslim minorities in countries all over the world to begin trying to conquer their respective countries:
In scandalous remarks delivered in a keynote address during the inauguration of the four-day Muslim Minorities Summit, held in Istanbul and organized by the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Erdoğan urged the foreign guests in attendance to organize themselves and start dominating and ruling the larger non-Muslim populations in their respective countries. “That you are a minority in a country is never a disadvantage,” he emphasized, recalling verse 2:249 from the Muslim Holy Book, the Quran, which states: “How often, with God’s permission, have small groups defeated the large ones? God is with those who exercise patience.”
Stressing that God’s judgment is already given in such cases, Erdoğan said: “Therefore we, as communities of faith, can overcome whatever others have, including bombs and other things, with God’s permission. In history, many small, well-organized groups dominated and ruled groups that had many more people.” In other words, the Turkish president was urging Muslim community representatives from some 100 countries including South Africa, America, Mexico, India and Argentina as well as countries in Europe to organize themselves with a view toward conquering and governing the countries in which they live. This is yet another instance of how Erdoğan’s caliphate ambitions to command the allegiance of all Muslims in the world were manifested, this time at a meeting in lavish Dolmabahçe Palace, which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.
There are several articles in the Arabic, reporting that the point of this conference is for Erdogan to begin preparing the Muslim world for his announcement that he is their new Caliph. And what better way to do that with a call to conquest!
So given all this, it isn’t a coincidence that Erdogan is bumping his new elections up so that he can officially become the sultan of Turkey. I think he must become Sultan before he can announce that he is the new Caliph of the Muslim world.
UPDATE:
Here’s a little more insight from a Turkish writer on the implications of Erdogan moving elections to this year:
1) #Erdogan called for an early election today to consolidate his gains, secure his position in imperial presidency and marginalise fledgling opposition further before headwinds in worsening economy gets any stronger.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
2) There will be no free and fair elections given the judiciary's complete subordination to #Erdogan's rule, decimation of free and independent media with 258 journalists behind bars, unprecedented clampdown on civil society and political opposition.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
4) A new opposition party Iyi party, led by Meral Aksener, an underdog and a nationalist who set to challenge #Erdogan, won't be able to contest elections as a political party because of not enough lapse of the time
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
5) The snap election would come right after Muslim Holy Month Ramadan which would give #Erdogan enough momentum to campaign on religion at a time religious sensitivities make a peak in #Turkey.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
6) For voters in the rural areas, mainly farmers, the state subsidies/payout on produce would come after the summer, giving #Erdogan an ample time to woo them with promises that do not require an immediate payment.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
7) The most troubling news is that #Turkey would likely see a surge in false-flag terror acts to scare voters into sticking to the devil they know best to feel safe & secure. We have seen that card played out by #Erdogan during snap poll in 2015 and it had worked.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
8) The track record of Hakan Fidan, #Erdogan confidante who runs the intelligence service MIT, suggests he has already planned some nasty stuff to blame the terror to others with a view to hype anti-Western conspiracy in Turkey.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
9) Erdogan will frame snap elections as an opportunity to liberate #Turkey as if he has not been running the country for the last 15 years and run the campaign on staunchly anti-Western, anti-Arab theme.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018
10) Let's not forget that #Turkey would be heading to early elections under emergency rule which empowers the gov't to suspend any meetings and rallies in a snap without even bothering about a judicial review.
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) April 18, 2018