With his position apparently strengthening ahead of round two in these elections, there will be almost certainly disappointment in the West.Įrdogan's rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu is not well known outside Turkey but to Western policy makers he had offered a tonic to the friction and frustrations generated by Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Īn accountant and bureaucrat with a reputation as a clean politician and secularist who wants to restore Turkish western relations and trust with NATO allies. His defeat would have been welcomed as a sign of things to come, the humbling of one populist strongman with others perhaps to follow. A hard truth to swallow for his NATO allies who will have been hoping, albeitly privately, for change.Įrdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule, economic eccentricity and waywardness within NATO have all caused deepening alarm among allies. President Erdogan will have been Vladimir Putin's favourite in this election. Here our international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn explains why. While the result could change Turkey's future, it could also have a huge impact on the war in Ukraine.
Turkey's current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been in power for two decades, and is going up against the opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Accessed May 27, 2023.It might sound irrelevant to this blog, but over in Turkey people are heading to the polls to pick their president, and their choice is being closely watched around the world. "“Angry face” Facebook: Rage now trumps “love” in reactions to legislators’ Facebook posts." Nieman Journalism Lab. “Angry face” Facebook: Rage now trumps “love” in reactions to legislators’ Facebook posts. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 20 Jul. NewsWhip previously looked at reactions to hyper-partisan Facebook pages and found that “angry” was the most common reaction. 23, 2016 (the day before the reactions were released) and Dec. Because the emotional reactions were not available across the entire timeframe, this analysis is based upon posts created between Feb. When Democrats expressed opposition to Republicans, they earned six times as many angry reactions, on average. Posts that expressed opposition to Trump received an estimated five times as many angry reactions as posts that did not express support or opposition toward any figure or group. Prior to Trump’s inauguration, the “love” reaction was the most commonly used alternative to “likes,” but it has since been largely eclipsed by “angry.” The use of angry reactions to congressional Facebook posts rose throughout 2017, reaching its highest observed rates at the end of the year, comprising 9 percent of all reactions to the average Democrat’s posts in December 2017, and 13 percent of the average Republican’s.Īngry reactions were especially likely to ensue when posts expressed political opposition.
While “likes” remain the most common reaction, “angry” was the most frequently used of the six alternatives (such as “haha,” “wow,” and “love”). Among Republicans, the share of angry reactions increased from 2 percent before the election to 6 percent after. After the election, that share increased to 5 percent, on average. Prior to the election (but after the “angry” feature was released), just 1 percent of all reactions to posts by Democrats were angry. Legislators’ Facebook audiences became much more likely to react to posts with Facebook’s “angry” button in the wake of the 2016 election. May 12, 2017Facebook has gotten angrier since the election: Facebook users are increasingly using the “angry” reaction in response to legislators’ Facebook posts, Pew finds.
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