{"id":157487,"date":"2023-05-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=918289"},"modified":"2023-05-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:00:00","slug":"first-thing-runoff-increasingly-likely-in-turkish-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/05\/15\/first-thing-runoff-increasingly-likely-in-turkish-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Runoff increasingly likely in Turkish elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Good morning.
\nRecord high turnout in a tightly fought election has presented the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, with the greatest challenge to his leadership in two decades, amid signs that the vote was heading for a runoff even as Erdo\u011fan attempted to claim victory before an official vote count had ended.
\nSpeaking to a jubilant crowd of supporters, an energised and delighted Erdo\u011fan declared: \u201cThe fact that the election results have not yet been finalised does not diminish the fact that our nation\u2019s choice is clearly in favor of us.\u201d
\nDespite Turkey\u2019s supreme election council, the YSK, declaring that the count was not yet finished in either the parliamentary or presidential election, Erdo\u011fan claimed his alliance had won a majority.
\n\u201cWe believe I will finish with above 50% in the first round,\u201d he added, projecting an outright win the presidential election without the need for a runoff.
\nWhat are the results so far? With just over 99% of ballot boxes opened, Erdo\u011fan has received 49.4% of votes in the country\u2019s presidential election, the head of the country\u2019s election council has said. Reuters is quoting Ahmet Yener as saying on Monday that Erdo\u011fan\u2019s rival, Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, had scored 44.96%.
\nWhat has K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu said? He hit back at Erdo\u011fan in a more subdued speech: \u201cDespite all of his lies and attacks, Erdo\u011fan did not receive the desired outcome. No one should be enthusiastic about this being a done deal. The election is not won on the balcony,\u201d he said.
\nVolodymyr Zelenskiy arrives in London to meet \u2018my friend\u2019 Rishi Sunak
\nRishi Sunak embraces Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Chequers on 15 May 2023. Photograph: @RishiSunak
\nThe Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has arrived in the UK for \u201csubstantive negotiations\u201d with the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak.
\nIn an early morning message as he landed in the UK, Zelenskiy confirmed he would \u201cmeet my friend Rishi\u201d as Britain announced that it would send hundreds of new long-range attack drones with a range of over 200km to Ukraine.
\nThe visit is part of a tour of several key European allies ahead of an expected major Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces.
\nOver the weekend, he was in Germany and Berlin announced Germany\u2019s largest pledge in military aid since the start of the war. In a statement, the German defence ministry said the package would include 30 Leopard and 20 Marder tanks from industrial reserves, as well as armoured personnel carriers, reconnaissance drones and ammunition.
\nMeanwhile, Zelenskiy has issued a new appeal to Nato today to make a \u201cpositive political decision\u201d on Kyiv\u2019s membership at its July summit.
\nWhat is happening on the ground in Ukraine? Russia has said two of its military commanders were killed in eastern Ukraine, as Kyiv\u2019s forces renewed efforts to break through Russian defences in the embattled city of Bakhmut. The Russian defence ministry said yesterday that commander Vyacheslav Makarov of the 4th motorised rifle brigade and deputy commander Yevgeny Brovko from a separate unit were killed trying to repel Ukrainian attacks.
\nBorder crossings reportedly decrease after Title 42 rules scrapped
\nA child, who recently crossed the border, waits for food given by volunteers, in San Diego, California. Photograph: \u00c9tienne Laurent\/EPA
\nCrossings at the US border with Mexico have dropped 50% after Title 42 restrictions ended at the end of Thursday and the Biden White House implemented an arguably tougher immigration policy, the US homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, said on Sunday.
\nMeanwhile, Joe Biden told White House pool reporters yesterday that the border situation immediately after Title 42\u2019s elimination was \u201cmuch better than you all expected\u201d. The president said he did not plan to visit the border \u201cin the near term\u201d because to do so at this stage \u201cwould just be disruptive\u201d.
\nMayorkas and Biden\u2019s remarks yesterday were a defense of the policy which replaced the expired measure that allowed border officials to expel migrants 2.7m times to their home country or Mexico without hearing their asylum claims, ostensibly to limit the spread of Covid-19.
\nAdvocates have argued that the new Biden restrictions mimic two Donald Trump-era policies, but Mayorkas defiantly touted the updated measures, saying on CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday that the \u201cUS Border Patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before Title 42 ended\u201d.
\nWhat does the new rule mean? The rules now bar migrants from asylum if they don\u2019t request refugee status in another country before entering the US.
\nHow many people have tried to cross the border following the end of Title 42? Mayorkas added that, on Friday, border patrol officers had detained 6,300 migrants and about 4,200 on Saturday, down from more than 10,000 \u201cbefore the end of Title 42 earlier last week\u201d.
\nIn other news \u2026
\nNikki Haley is suffering from low polling \u2013 only 4.2%. Photograph: Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images
\nNikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina who is vying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has distanced herself from calls for a federal abortion ban , saying that to promise such a universal barrier to terminations would be to lie to the American people.
\nA Chinese court has sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison on espionage charges. John Shing Wan Leung was detained in April 2021 by Chinese security services. The Hong Kong resident was chair of the Texas branch of Chinese \u2018reunification\u2019 association.
\nThe US rental car giant Hertz has apologized and pledged to retrain its staff after an employee denied a Puerto Rican customer a prepaid vehicle on the mistaken belief they needed a passport. During the incident a law enforcement officer allegedly threatened to turn the man over to immigration authorities even though Puerto Rico has been a US territory since 1898.
\nThe amount of adult speech children are exposed to in their early years may help to shape the structure of their brains, researchers say. Studies have previously suggested there are benefits to talking to young children, with research suggesting it can help improve their language processing and boost their vocabularies.
\nDon\u2019t miss this: why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
\nThe reality show Love Island has fueled a habit among young Americans of shifting into a British accent in awkward situations. Photograph: ITV\/REX\/Shutterstock
\nAmericans have long been called out for their phoney British accents \u2013 think Madonna in her Guy Ritchie era, or the friend who just came home from studying abroad in London. But generation Z has embraced bad imitations of cockney slang or a Yorkshire dialect, using obviously fake, theatrical voices to make light of low-grade daily dramas. \u201cFake British accent\u201d videos have over 188,000 views on TikTok, where young people say they use the voice whenever they feel uncomfortable.
\nBrinton Parker, a 30-year-old who lives in the Bay Area, works in tech marketing. She recently asked her manager for support at work after feeling like she was approaching burnout. \u201cI said, \u2018It\u2019s affecting me mental health, innit?\u2019\u201d she explained. \u201cAnd my boss was like, \u2018Why did you say it like that?\u2019 I think it adds levity to a vulnerable situation. The tougher the conversation, the more cockney I become.\u201d
\n\u2026 Or this: DNA evidence reveals family man in Australia was teenage killer who escaped Nebraska jail
\nWilliam Leslie Arnold killed his parents aged 16 in 1957 and escaped prison 10 years later, mystifying authorities until now. Photograph: US Marshals Service
\nWilliam Leslie Arnold was just 16 years old in 1958 when he killed his parents and buried them in the back yard after they refused to let him borrow the family car to take his girlfriend to a drive-in movie showing of The Undead. Two weeks later he was arrested, confessed to the killings and led investigators to his parents\u2019 makeshift gravesite. The following year he was sentenced to two life sentences in the Nebraska state penitentiary. And that \u2013 most people expected \u2013 should have been that. But by the time Arnold died in 2010 in Brisbane, Australia, his life had taken a series of very unexpected turns. For one, he\u2019d escaped prison in 1967, in what the prison warden said was one of the \u201ccleanest\u201d escapes in his experience, and then gone on the run for half a century.
\nClimate check: climate crisis deniers target scientists for vicious abuse on Musk\u2019s Twitter
\nBritish scientists are concerned that the real effects of the climate crisis, such as this wildfire in Alberta, Canada, earlier this month, are not reaching the public. Photograph: Alberta Wildfire\/Reuters
\nA number of top scientists have spoken out about what they describe as a huge rise in abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter since the social media platform was taken over by Elon Musk last year. Since then, key figures who ensured \u201ctrusted\u201d content was prioritised have been sacked, according to one scientist, and Twitter\u2019s sustainability arm has vanished. At the same time several users with millions of followers who propagate false statements about the climate emergency, including Donald Trump and rightwing culture stirrer Jordan Peterson, have had their accounts reinstated. Climate scientists say the change has been stark, and they are fighting to make themselves heard over a \u201cbarrage\u201d of often hostile comments.
\nLast Thing: not having cellphone allowed US boy to save runaway bus from crashing
\nIn this image made from video, seventh-grader Dillon Reeves grabs the steering wheel on his school bus and hit the brakes after the driver passed out on 28 Apri. Photograph: AP
\nA Michigan boy who recently stopped a school bus from crashing after the driver lost consciousness leapt into action because he was the only passenger not distracted by an electronic device, according to a new report from CBS. On Sunday, two weeks after seventh-grader Dillon Reeves regained control of a school bus when its driver became unconscious, the network reported that the boy\u2019s parents\u2019 refusal to provide him a cellphone paid off in a big way. Dillon\u2019s father, Steve, told CBS: \u201cWhat else are you going to do when you don\u2019t have a phone? You\u2019re going to look at people, you\u2019re going to notice stuff. You\u2019re going to look out the window. It\u2019s a very powerful lesson, maybe a change-the-world kind of lesson.\u201d
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