“more than 80 per cent of voters turned out”

That’s great news, and means this is a resounding rejection of the far-right and its abhorrent vision for the world. 

The result also reinforces that we’re not talking about “populism”, but rather, a very loud radical fringe.

“austerity measures”

Expanded programs of deregulation and privatization, coupled with a war on the public service, which even the IMF – which demanded much of this - now admits only made terrible crises unmanageable.

“the financial crisis”

The collapse of the economies of all the signatories to “Globalization”, the initial round of mass deregulation and privatization forced on all aligned states by right-wing governments who’d abdicated their power to corporate interests.

“Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan”

Is trying to anoint himself a dictator, and what he was demanding the government allow him to do in their country actually violates Turkish law.