*After Turks went to the polls in a round of contentious local elections on Sunday, power outages forced some voting centers to count votes by candlelight. Accusations of election fraud ran rampant, especially in the closely-watched races in the capital. In an attempt to ease voter worry, Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has now come forward with a culprit for the power cuts: a cat. “I am not joking, friends,“ he said, according to the Agence France-Presse. “A cat walked into a transformer unit. That’s why there was a power cut. It’s not the first time this has happened.“ The statement prompted widespread ridicule and anger among Turks who are increasingly at odds with controversial Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party...* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Sophia Jones at The Huffington Post:
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