You are confusing majority of valid votes with being democratically elected. Right now, any party in Turkey needs to get at least %10 of all of the votes to mak

You are confusing majority of valid votes with being democratically elected. Right now, any party in Turkey needs to get at least %10 of all of the votes to make it into the parliament. Due to this, many people just vote for one of the 3-4 major parties that they think they are closest, rather than who they would like to vote most. And many of the votes are simply being wasted as they are re-distributed evenly between the parties that make the threshold. Erdogan does NOT enjoy majority support as a hard-line Islamist. There were many factions in his supporters like liberals that were happy with increased control over the military, people that are just OK with having a government that has some stability etc, and he gets many criticism from those old allies. tl;dr: Turkish elections are broken, AKP is unlikely to fix it since they greatly benefit from it. I have no idea how Turkish protests are not democratic. There was a court law against the park demolitions, yet the government was ignoring it and having it their way. If you are not allowed to protest that, I believe you are against protesting against NSA surveillance as well? You could just wait for the next elections and vote for Republicans... that will show them. Your claims are not backed by any sources (at least for Turkish protests, I don't have the necessary knowledge for Egypt to make claims). I am afraid you were misinformed and/or biased.