Erdoğan’s strategy sought to complement this exercise in damage limitation with a demonstration of its popular legitimacy. With the AKP’s overwhelming triumph in the local elections, Erdoğan can now justifiably claim that the Turkish electorate backs his approach, including his government’s suspension of the rule of law in order to obstruct corruption investigations that it views as a judicial coup attempted by Gülen’s followers.
埃尔多安试图通过证明其群众合法性来巩固其政治止损操作。AKP在地方选举中的压倒性胜利让埃尔多安能够名正言顺地宣布土耳其选民支持他的方针，包括其政府中止法治精神的行为。政府这样做是为了阻止被其视为葛兰追随者的司法政变的腐败调查。