That means, for me, losing much more. Fingers crossed.

He already lost Ankara. Just found out in post from Turkish family friend. (Istanbul is still contested.)

https://www.reuters.com/articl...sputed-idUSKCN1RD130

So you think Erdogan should be retained? Curious as to why. I've not been following the Turkey happenings in awhile.

quote:

Originally posted by Nina:
So you think Erdogan should be retained? Curious as to why. I've not been following the Turkey happenings in awhile.

No no, no! Syntactic scrambling or something led you to read my meaning as the opposite of what I intended. (SHould I have written "many" - meaning cities - instead of "much"?).

I meant that having already lost the three major Turkish cities (Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir), I hoped they would finally losethe whole country.

As in subject line of thread, the "greater things" references my hope that after his sixteen years in power, he and his party would finally be voted out (although I find it difficult to believe his election really IS determined by democratic processes).

I utterly despise him as does everyone in my Turkish family by marriage!! (Wondering what's happening there now. Haven't had time to check the news today being busy with CA son's all too short visit.) Just happened to stop by online for a random moment.