THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS: Bridget Johnson: Something Marvelous Happened at the Turkish Ballot Box Today: Islamists Lose Parliament. “President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been counting on the continued rule of his AKP party to change the country’s constitution after these elections, consolidating his already increasingly authoritarian rule into something even more dastardly. But a 2/3 majority of AKP in parliament is needed to change the constitution. Today, the Islamist party walked away with only 41 percent of seats.”