Mate the thing is Erdo has recently been selected as President and he is gonna stay for five years and probably will be selected for the second term which makes 10 years.
Other than that there will be parliamentary elections in July 2015. Problem is against AKP, there are two main opposition parties.
- MHP with Devlet Bahçeli as it's leader lost 12 elections against AKP.
- CHP with Kemal kılıçdaroğlu as it's leader lost 9 elections against AKP.
They are continuing with their leaders. Opposition really sucks big time, there are no other political parties which can challenge AKP. So, everybody expects AKP to win this election too.
I don't understand Erdoğan. MB is gone, region shaped differently. We need to reevaluate the political situation and act in according to Turkey's interests. His pro-MB stance doesn't benefits Turkey.
Erdo is starting to reevaluate his position, especially on Syria. Improving ties with Iran after the 5+1 meetings is clearly a reneg on his personal mission to topple Assad, he's invested too much in that, and the Muslim Brotherhood in both Syria and in Egypt. In Syria they don't have strong grass roots support as the majority of the MB leadership is and was in exile. In Egypt they completely self imploded.
It is weird for Turkey and Egypt not to have any normal relations considering their history and their geopolitical importance in the region, even when Egypt is in crisis. Something Elsisi keeps on saying does ring true in all this though, "there will be no movement/return to the past". Morsi is gone and the Egyptian state will not let him go before his trial.
Ten years or more isn't that much in the grand scheme of things.
It's very delighting to see Saudi Arabia cheering for a coup leader (Sisi) who toppled a democratically elected president while crying about Yemenis and bombing them because they ousted a puppet stooge (Hadi) who was 'elected' in a single candidate election with 99.8 of votes. The most ridiculous part is that, Sisi, the coup leader, is also bombing Yemenis with that excuse. That's what we call rules of jungle. Hypocrisy has too many faces.
Spare us the BS!
The Houthis were a part of the National Dialogue Conference that extended the term of Hadi (among other things) and set a road map. The road map included the writing of a new constitution, a referendum, and then presidential elections to replace Hadi.
Hadi was only ever meant to be an interim or transitional figure as such a plural election was not required. The elections themselves were after an initial international initiative to remove Saleh, who is now allied with the Houthis.
The same Houthis who held the interim government at gun point on multiple issues including subsidies, and most recently evicted it by force from the capital.
Hadi may enjoy little democratic legitimacy, but the Houthis have none whatsoever, that's the difference. Comparing Yemen and Egypt is just foolish (the situations and events are nowhere near the same), but you're not trying to analyse, you're trying to score political points.
Again, cry me a river.