Turkey: Democracy functioning! No more US soldiers...

[e. ahmet tonak]

The government's resolution was not able to get the simple majority vote 
in the parliament; hence it was rejected.  Out of 534 parliamentarians 
only 264 supported the resolution when at least 268  supporters were 
needed --251 opposed, 19 abstained.

As the parliament was in this 5 hour, rather turbulent closed session, 
hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters were on the streets of Ankara.





E. Ahmet Tonak
Professor of Economics
Simon's Rock College of Bard
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