of twenty sixteen turkey's president valid it would never happen again he used a state of emergency to purge the military the police the state bureaucracy public schools and universities of hundreds of thousands of people he considered possible in the minds of the state a crackdown condemned the world over especially as turkey's independent media were being shut down a crackdown that apparently did not snuff out the voice of the people in municipal elections back in march voters kicked out president everyone's a key party in istanbul and in the capital ankara a victory that may be short lived turkey's election board has ordered its stamboul to rerun its election next month agreeing with president to one that the first vote may have been rigged tonight there is international outrage of that decision and yet even the opposition parties even the party which won the first election they've