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The Most Important Election In The Middle East

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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The Red Dragon Scenario for Erdogan's Election

In Turkey, the AKP controls the YSK, the Supreme Electoral Board, and it's staffed with their loyalists. They can go to the YSK and say, find me the votes like Trump did with Georgia. There's also the outside chance that Erdogan loses the presidency, but the AKP holds parliament. And then parliament held by the AKP then votes for a new poll to try to get their president back in and tries to invalidate it.

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