Translation- You failed in your data manipulation or presentation thereof and we couldn’t steal the election!
Can’t prove it but what else does this sudden sacking suggest other than a job badly done? A Goal UnMet!
Turkish Minute
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Turkish opposition’s presidential candidate, has removed CHP vice chairman Onursal Adıgüzel from his position, reportedly
due to problems encountered in communicating election resultson the night of May 14, according to Turkish media.
Removed for problems encountered in communicating election results.
Onursal Adıgüzel claims all systems were functioning correctly and there were no technical issues. CHP couldn’t control/manipulate the message to their benefit
The criticism is focused on their coverage of data from the state-run Anadolu news agency, which has a unique algorithm that initially assigns high scores to Erdoğan but eventually evens out the scores over time and is said to have undermined the motivation of opposition poll observers who were still monitoring the vote count at the ballot boxes at the time.
Following news reports that Adıgüzel, responsible for information and communication technologies, was removed from his position
due to problems the CHP encountered in conveying the results on election night, he shared his letter of resignation on social media on Monday.“Due to the negative public perception that has arisen,
despite our systems functioning properly and no technical issues occurring on election night, I am stepping down from the position I’ve held since 2018to avoid causing any harm to the election [prospects] of our chairman, Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu,” Adıgüzel said in the letter.
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our systems functioning properly and no technical issues occurring on election night“
He resigned publicly, reassuring the west, the faithful and for maximum shaming.
Kamuoyunda oluşan olumsuz kanaat nedeniyle, seçim akşamı sistemlerimiz çalışmasına ve hiçbir teknik aksaklık yaşanmamasına rağmen, Genel Başkanımız Sayın Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’nun seçim sürecine zarar vermemek adına 2018 yılından bu yana sürdürdüğüm görevimden ayrılıyorum. pic.twitter.com/GebfWAfgmi
— Onursal Adıgüzel (@onursaladiguzel) May 15, 2023
2 replies on “Kılıçdaroğlu Sacks Vice Chair for “Data Flow Failure””
Hi Penny,
Perhaps Onursal Adıgüzel was unwilling to lie, cheat and deceive to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s satisfaction on election night ? Surely as a competing political party the CHP was not ‘in charge’ of tabulating the vote ? What was his miscommunication of electoral results ?
Hi Mark,
entirely possible he was unwilling to lie, cheat and deceive to the satisfaction of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. No they would not have been in charge of tabulating the vote- I don’t know what his miscommunication was. It’s not clear other than the specified “communicating election results”
or “problems the CHP encountered in conveying the results on election night”
Highly suggestive they were trying to put forth a very specific narrative- likely with the help of the two mayors who called the opposition leader their President