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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Economist Milton Friedman later noted that he, Friedman, regarded Reagan's pick of Bush as "the worst decision not only of his campaign but of his presidency", and that Rumsfeld was instead his preference. "Had he been chosen," Friedman said, "I believe he would have succeeded Reagan as president and the sorry Bush-Clinton period would never have occurred."

1981-1981: fmr. Governor of California Ronald Reagan
(
with fmr. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld) defeated president Jimmy Carter/vice president Walter Mondale
1981-1985:
vice president Donald Rumsfeld
(
vacant, then with Senator from Nevada Paul Laxalt)
1985-1989:
president Donald Rumsfeld
(
with Senator from New York James Buckley) defeated fmr. vice president Walter Mondale/Mayor of Los Angeles Tom Bradley
1989-1991:
Senator from Colorado Gary Hart
(
with Senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley) defeated vice president James Buckley/Governor of South Carolina Carroll Campbell
1991-1993:
vice president Bill Bradley
(
vacant, then with Senator from Tennessee Al Gore)
1993-2001: former Secretary of State Dick Cheney
(
with fmr. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp) '92: defeated president Bill Bradley/vice president Al Gore
'96:
defeated fmr. Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm/Representative from Ohio Marcy Kaptur, member of the Ohio Senate Dennis Kinnuich/member of the California State Assembly Tom Hayden
 
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We're halfway through the time for the HoS List Challenge (link in my sig), so I'm cross-posting my last month's entry here. This month's theme is "New World".

In Those Days, At This Season
Commanders of the Maccabean People's Army:
1922-1931: Berl Katznelson (political leader), Israel Shochat (military leader)
1931-1938: Berl Katznelson (political leader), Mordechai Anielewicz (military leader)
1938-1947?: Yitzhak Tabenkin (political leader), Mordechai Anielewicz (military leader)
1947?-1953: Yitzhak Tabenkin (political leader), Mordechai Anielewicz (military leader)
1953-1965: Yitzhak Tabenkin (political leader), Josef Glasman (military leader)
1965-1974: Zivia Lubetkin (political leader), Yitzhak Zuckerman & Mansur al-Nashashibi (military leaders)

Presidents of the Governing Council of the Union of Levantine Kibbutzim:
1974-1978: Transitional Council of All Factions
1978-xxxx: Murray Bookchin (HaKibbutz Hameuhad)
def 1978: (Minority with Arab People's and Young Zion support) Yigael Gluckstein (Adhut HaAvoda), Rostam Bastuni (Arab People's), Eliezer Livneh (HaOved HaTzioni), Jakub Berman (Makei), Moshe Unna (Emunah), Saadia Marciano (Young Zion), Yigael Yadin (HaIkarim), Bashir Barghouti (Arabic Workers Front)

They tried to kill us. We won. Let's eat.

[laughter from the audience]

...is that not enough? Fine, then. The full story. Oh you want it from the start? Well, in the beginning G_d created the heaven and the earth...

[more laughter]

Alright, alright, fine then! I think it's an important point, though. With history, it's hard--very hard indeed--to pick a "beginning" that properly, well, begins. Every point in history is dependent on the points before it, and so on and so forth...really, if I wanted to waste any more of your time I could start with the exodus from Egypt into the promised land, the first time we returned here, or the destruction of the Temple by Babylon, the first time we were forced to leave. While our national story does start there, or in another sense it starts with Maimonides' Thirteen Principles, or in a synagogue in Semlin, the best place to start for our purposes is the 1920s, with one of the more trouble Mutasarrifates of the Ottoman Empire...

A lot of accounts act like the New Maccabees came out of nowhere, that their history begins with Katznelson getting off the boat from White Russia--well, that's really not true. There had been Jewish communities in Palestine for, well, quite some time, and their number was increasing as aliyah began to look a more attractive option thanks to the barbarisms going on in Russia at the time under Denikin, and of course this began to cause friction. After 1908, the new government had started out by being friendly to us if we toed the line--accepting Ottoman citizenship, swearing loyalty, all that sort of thing--but they'd changed their tone not five years later, were trying to bar those making aliyah from landfall, accusing us of being foreign agents, the same old story from all over.

By the early Twenties, Djemal Pasha [hissing and booing] not now! Oh, alright, fine...a certain gentleman had managed to outmaneuver the other two members of the triumvirate, and the policies of discrimination became policies of destruction. Katznelson, at the time, was growing his influence in the Jewish community's left-wing through his labour organising efforts on behalf of Jewish workers, and so faced his work constantly being opposed by Ottoman authorities. The sudden shift to more direct cultural suppression, the burning of libraries, the breaking-up of prayer meetings, this was something new to him, that he knew had to be fought. So he reached out to the group that had been preparing for such a day--the HaShomer, the watchmen, who'd been acting as an internal police and protecting the Yishuv.

They both needed each other--Katznelson and the Histadrut had the foundations for a Hebrew civil society, and Shochat and the HaShomer had the means to defend that society. A sword in one hand, a plow in the other--that was the way. They took their name from the Maccabees not just because they fought in this land, once, and won, against an empire that hated them, but because in the midst of that bloodshed they found time to restore the Temple. Those were the ideals of Labour Zionism--that in building a new nation, we have a duty to make a just one, not just another state, but a light unto the nations.

The Ottoman armies laughed at us, said we didn't have the men or the resources to last, but once we got the port of Hadera secure, the whole diaspora could join the fight as well. Just like how what some though would last only one night was enough to last eight, what some thought would last only seven years lasted eight times that. It was thanks to His hand protecting us that we weathered the splits--between religious and secular, between kibbutznik and state-builder, and yes, between ourselves and the other inhabitants--and stayed united in our common struggle, to live in our land and keep our customs, whatever those customs were, with no Pasha to breathe down our neck!

On this day, so many years ago, the 7th of Tevet, we came out the other side. Decades of struggle were over--we could hold elections, be part of the community of nations, accomplish the dream of two thousand years. They tried to kill us, and we won.

So let's eat!

[applause from the audience]
 
Originally this was an idea for a Alternate History British Noir story, but instead I’ve created the setting for ‘Hilde Monte’s Inglorious Bastards’;

1937-1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading National Government)
1940-1941: Duff Cooper (Conservative & National)
1941-1946: Euan Wallace (Conservative &
National)
1941 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Stafford Cripps (‘Action’ Labour)
1946-1947: Arthur Greenwood (Labour)
1946 (Majority) def: Euan Wallace (Conservative & National), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Stafford Cripps (Action)
1947-1953: Hugh Dalton (Labour)
1950 (Majority) def: Oliver Stanley (Unionist), Wilfrid Roberts (Liberal), George Strauss (Action)
1953-1955: Manny Shillwell (Labour)
1955-: Anthony Eden (Unionist leading ‘War Government’)

1955 (Anti-Fascist Coupon) def: Manny Shillwell (Labour), Wilfrid Roberts (Liberal), George Strauss (Action), Oswald Mosley (Union)


As War erupts in Europe, it’s architect, Adolf Hitler is killed by a bomb at Bürgerbräukeller alongside Rudolf Hess and several other prominent Nazi’s. Herman Göring takes over after a chaotic period of infighting which stalls the early advantages of Germany. Chamberlain is able to stay around a bit longer as a result, as the ‘Phoney War’ occurs for longer as Göring consolidates control. By the time Germany is attacking Norway and the Low Countries, Duff Cooper has returned from America and becomes Prime Minister of a National War Government.

Germany stalls in France and the bloody stalemate lasts to Spring of 1941, where increasing concerns over the Soviet Union and Italy stalling in the East leads to Germany coming cap in hand to an Armistice deal. Cooper is forced out the by War Weary backbenchers who fear another World War 1 and a former Chamberlain support Euan Wallace comes to the table. The War in Europe ends rather awkwardly for everyone as no one particularly wins.

Euan Wallace would be forced to an election by Clement Attlee and rebel Tories who want to squash Germany once and for all. Wallace wins a slim majority on a continuation of Chamberlain policies and the Labour Party proceeds to rip each other to shreds as an Anti-National Government splinter does decently in the 1941 election. Wallace tenure is spent mainly fighting party coup attempts as the Chamberlainites and the Edenites try to gain control of the party for there own ends and trying to establish the Welfare State that Chamberlain envisioned.

Herbert Morrison’s attempt to oust Attlee leads to Arthur Greenwood managing to become the leader with support of the Unions and the failure of the Wallace Government particularly with fighting the Japanese coupled with Nazi’s invading the East and battling the Soviet Union which ends around 1943 causing many to sour on the Armistice. Greenwood is voted in 1946 by a population tired of the National Government and who want reform and a Labour Government to guide them through.

Greenwood starts increasing aid being supplied to the Soviets and plans to bring Britain back into War against Germany, is ruined by a combination of Britain’s military being tied down policing the Empire, fighting Middle Eastern Independence movements and the Japanese whilst Greenwood alcoholism gets the better of him.

Hugh Dalton wins by combining support from Morrisonites and Union voters against the scary Leftist Nye Bevan who joins Action not long after. Dalton is more preoccupied with keeping the British Empire spends much of the late Forties to keep it in British Control as the Japanese are beaten back. Dalton tries to avoid getting involved in Europe, but not longer after his re-election an opportunity appears.

The Mussolini regime implodes spectacularly after he’s assassinated by Anti-Fascists and the various wannabe Il Duce’s proceed to bring about a Civil War. Britain decides to ‘protect and secure’ Italy’s Colonies with help from apathetic troops and begins supporting Anti-Fascist forces across the country with weapons and troops. Germany’s reaction is to support the forces of Bruno Mussolini.

Italy and Greece become a battleground between German supported Government forces and British supported Anti-Fascists and Dalton believes that the Anti-Fascists will win. Heinrich Müller head of the Nazi Security Forces is killed in an assassination concocted by Hilde Monte and her connections to Hugh Dalton cause an awkward cool war to become very warm, as Germany decides to deal with this problem once and for all, as liberal use of poison gas is used against Partisan forces. Dalton isn’t seen as having the muster to commit to a full out Anti-Nazi war and so his Secretary of Defence, Manny Shillwell is made Prime Minister.

But having a Jewish Socialist Prime Minister inspires the nascent Fascist movement and Anti-Semitic groups to return from the woodwork and Oswald Mosley's Anti-War ‘Union’ campaign inspires enough people to become a political problem for Shillwell as street fighting across Britain becomes commonplace. As Britain slowly heads back to war, as Spanish forces also see Anti-Fascist partisans emerge to retake Catalan and more, it seems that a more stable War Government must be formed.

In 1955, the so called Tory Democrat and rabble rousing supporter of War against Germany, Anthony Eden finds himself becoming a designated leader of a War Government to be, as that year’s coupon election see’s Britain elect a Pro-War Government as Mosley flounders.

As Britain enters officially into War and secretly gains support from the Soviet Union, a daring plan by Hilde Monte and other members of the Union Time Ltd is concocted to take out Herman Göring and his gaggle of supporters once and for all.
 
A bit of a Libertarian wank Wikibox TL that I wanted to write a few years ago.

2009 - 2017: Barack Obama / Joe Biden (Democrat)
2008: John McCain / Sarah Palin (Republican)
2012: Ron Paul / Gary Johnson (Republican)

2017 - 2018: Bernie Sanders / Tulsi Gabbard (Democrat)
2016: Donald Trump / Michael Flynn (Republican), Gary Johnson / William Weld (Libertarian)
2018 - 2020: Bernie Sanders / Tulsi Gabbard (Independent)
2020 - 2021: Bernie Sanders (Independent) / Tulsi Gabbard (Green)
2021 - 2029: Rand Paul / Nikki Haley (Republican)
2020: Kamala Harris / Chris Coons (Democrat), Tulsi Gabbard / Jesse Ventura (Green)
2024: Cory Booker / Jared Polis (Democrat), Jesse Ventura / Nina Turner (People's)

2029 - 2033: Justin Amash / Mia Love (Republican)
2028: Rashida Tlaib / Ron Wyden (Democrat), Tucker Carlson / Corey Stewart (American)
2033 - 2041: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / Chokwe Anter Lumumba (Democrat)
2032: Justin Amash / Mia Love (Republican)
 
Career or Theodore "Ted" Bundy

1968: Driver & Bodyguard for
Washington Lieutenant Gubernational candidate Arthur Fletcher
1968: Convention delegate for Republican Presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller
1969-1972: Private citizen, student, Suicide Hotline Crisis worker
1972-1973: Campaign worker for Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans

- Daniel J. Evans defeated Albert Rosellini, Vick Gould (Taxpayers)
1973-1974: Assistant to Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party Ross Davis
1974-1977: Director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee

- appointed by Governor Daniel J. Evans
1977: Campaign manager for Washington Gubernational candidate Slade Gorton

- Slade Gorton defeated Dixy Lee Ray
1977-1979: Chief of Staff for Governor Slade Gorton
1979-1980: Private citizen, KIRO-TV commentator
1980: Republican Party candidate for Attorney General for Washington

defeated Lloyd E. Cooney, William McCallum
1981-1983: Attorney General for Washington

defeated Dick Marquardt
1983-1995: Senator for Washington

- appointed by Governor Slade Gorton, replacing Henry M. Jackson
'83 special election: defeated Mike Lowry
'88: defeated
Don L. Bonker
1995-1997: Private citizen, Chairman of the National Federation for Decency

1997: Republican Party candidate for Governor of Washington
1997-2000: Governor of Washington

defeated Mike Lowry
2000: Republican Party primary candidate for President of the United States
defeated John McCain, Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, Lamaar Alexander, Pat Buchanan, others
2000: Republican Party candidate for President of the United States
(with Gary Franks) lost to Al Gore/Bob Graham
2000-present: Prisoner
- arrested by the FBI for 58 (declared) and 102 (suspected) charges assault, torture, rape and murder
- sentenced to 38 consecutive life charges, legal scholars continue to argue the sentencing to the current day
 
Career or Theodore "Ted" Bundy

1968: Driver & Bodyguard for
Washington Lieutenant Gubernational candidate Arthur Fletcher
1968: Convention delegate for Republican Presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller
1969-1972: Private citizen, student, Suicide Hotline Crisis worker
1972-1973: Campaign worker for Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans

- Daniel J. Evans defeated Albert Rosellini, Vick Gould (Taxpayers)
1973-1974: Assistant to Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party Ross Davis
1974-1977: Director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee

- appointed by Governor Daniel J. Evans
1977: Campaign manager for Washington Gubernational candidate Slade Gorton

- Slade Gorton defeated Dixy Lee Ray
1977-1979: Chief of Staff for Governor Slade Gorton
1979-1980: Private citizen, KIRO-TV commentator
1980: Republican Party candidate for Attorney General for Washington

defeated Lloyd E. Cooney, William McCallum
1981-1983: Attorney General for Washington

defeated Dick Marquardt
1983-1995: Senator for Washington

- appointed by Governor Slade Gorton, replacing Henry M. Jackson
'83 special election: defeated Mike Lowry
'88: defeated
Don L. Bonker
1995-1997: Private citizen, Chairman of the National Federation for Decency

1997: Republican Party candidate for Governor of Washington
1997-2000: Governor of Washington

defeated Mike Lowry
2000: Republican Party primary candidate for President of the United States
defeated John McCain, Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, Lamaar Alexander, Pat Buchanan, others
2000: Republican Party candidate for President of the United States
(with Gary Franks) lost to Al Gore/Bob Graham
2000-present: Prisoner
- arrested by the FBI for 58 (declared) and 102 (suspected) charges assault, torture, rape and murder
- sentenced to 38 consecutive life charges, legal scholars continue to argue the sentencing to the current day
2000 is going to be a massacre for the Republicans, don't know how they recover from this for at least a while. Wonder who the sacrificial lamb will be in 2004?
 
1892 United States presidential election
444 members of the Electoral College
223 electoral votes needed to win
50px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281891%E2%80%931896%29.svg.png
1888November 8, 18921896
Turnout74.7%[1]
Decrease
4.6 pp
StephenGroverCleveland.jpgBenjamin Harrison 1896.jpgJames B. Weaver 1892 (cropped).jpg
NomineeGrover ClevelandBenjamin HarrisonJames B. Weaver
PartyDemocraticRepublicanPopulist
Home stateNew YorkIndianaIowa
Running mateAdlai Stevenson IWhitelaw ReidJames G. Field
Electoral vote17724522
States carried23165
Popular vote4,556,9185,176,1081,041,028
1896 United States presidental election
447 members of the Electoral College
224 electoral votes needed to win
50px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281896%E2%80%931908%29.svg.png
1892November 3, 18961900
Turnout79.3%[1]
Increase
4.6 pp
William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896 (cropped).jpg1642311195429.png
NomineeWilliam McKinley Horace Boies
PartyRepublicanDemocratic
Allianceshow
Parties
Home stateOhioNebraska
Running mateGarret HobartArthur Sewall
(Democratic, Silver)
Thomas E. Watson
(Populist)
Electoral vote171276
States carried2322
Popular vote5,112,1387,510,807
1900 United States presidential election
447 members of the Electoral College
224 electoral votes needed to win
50px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281896%E2%80%931908%29.svg.png
1896November 6, 19001904
Turnout73.2%[1]
Decrease
6.1 pp
1900 United States presidential election
447 members of the Electoral College
224 electoral votes needed to win
50px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281896%E2%80%931908%29.svg.png
1896November 6, 19001904
Turnout73.2%[1]
Decrease
6.1 pp
1642311495147.png 1642311409752.png
PartyRepublicanGeorge Dewey Democratic Boies
Alliance"Fusion" Populist
Silver Republican
Home stateOhioNebraska
Running mateAdlai Stevenson I
Electoral vote292155
States carried2817
Popular vote7,228,8646,370,932
 
Career or Theodore "Ted" Bundy

1968: Driver & Bodyguard for
Washington Lieutenant Gubernational candidate Arthur Fletcher
1968: Convention delegate for Republican Presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller
1969-1972: Private citizen, student, Suicide Hotline Crisis worker
1972-1973: Campaign worker for Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans

- Daniel J. Evans defeated Albert Rosellini, Vick Gould (Taxpayers)
1973-1974: Assistant to Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party Ross Davis
1974-1977: Director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee

- appointed by Governor Daniel J. Evans
1977: Campaign manager for Washington Gubernational candidate Slade Gorton

- Slade Gorton defeated Dixy Lee Ray
1977-1979: Chief of Staff for Governor Slade Gorton
1979-1980: Private citizen, KIRO-TV commentator
1980: Republican Party candidate for Attorney General for Washington

defeated Lloyd E. Cooney, William McCallum
1981-1983: Attorney General for Washington

defeated Dick Marquardt
1983-1995: Senator for Washington

- appointed by Governor Slade Gorton, replacing Henry M. Jackson
'83 special election: defeated Mike Lowry
'88: defeated
Don L. Bonker
1995-1997: Private citizen, Chairman of the National Federation for Decency

1997: Republican Party candidate for Governor of Washington
1997-2000: Governor of Washington

defeated Mike Lowry
2000: Republican Party primary candidate for President of the United States
defeated John McCain, Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, Lamaar Alexander, Pat Buchanan, others
2000: Republican Party candidate for President of the United States
(with Gary Franks) lost to Al Gore/Bob Graham
2000-present: Prisoner
- arrested by the FBI for 58 (declared) and 102 (suspected) charges assault, torture, rape and murder
- sentenced to 38 consecutive life charges, legal scholars continue to argue the sentencing to the current day

Nice work!

I wonder if he prosecuted war criminals 🤔
 
1968-1977: Pierre Trudeau (Liberal)
1968: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)
1972: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), David Lewis (New Democratic), Réal Caouette (Social Credit)

1977-1982: Claude Wagner (Progressive Conservative)
1977: Pierre Trudeau (Liberal), David Lewis (New Democratic), René Matte (Social Credit)
1982-1991: John Turner (Liberal)
1982: Claude Wagner (Progressive Conservative), John Sewell (New Democratic), René Matte (Social Credit)
1986: John Crosbie (Progressive Conservative), John Sewell (New Democratic), René Matte (Social Credit)
1990 (Minority): Rick Orman (Progressive Conservative), John Sewell (New Democratic), Jean Dorion (Social Credit)

1991-1992: Serge Joyal (Liberal)
1992-2000: Rick Orman (Progressive Conservative)

1992: Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Serge Joyal (Liberal), Jean Dorion (Social Credit)
1996: Serge Joyal (Liberal), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Jean Dorion (Social Credit)

2000-: Maude Barlow (Liberal)
2000: Rick Orman (Progressive Conservative), Nicole Boudreau (Social Credit), Corky Evans (New Democratic), Diane Ablonczy (Western Independents)

A PoD I don't think I've seen before, simply that the Liberal campaign in 1972 isn't disastrously bad and the Liberals are able to win the narrowest of majorities. The satisfaction of victory quickly turns to complacency and then crisis as Trudeau has to contend with economic and energy crises, forced to u-turn more than once on policies meant to target inflation and unemployment as relations with with the cabinet and the provinces deteriorated fast. His attempt to revive constitutional reform in the mid-1970s also met with failure as his political capital diminished fast, and by 1976 the government had lost its majority to defections and by-election defeats, forced to make vote-by-vote deals with the New Democrats. By that point, the party was doing little more than running out the clock - which backfired when the federal election came only weeks after the Parti Quebecois came to power in Quebec. In the midst of a national unity crisis and a record of failure to prevent it, the Liberals were swept out of power in a landslide.

Wagner was no better equipped for Canada's crises. While winning a strong mandate across the country - including fifteen seats in Quebec - his culturally and ideologically diverse party could not agree on how best to approach the Levesque government. While the Sovereignty Association referendum failed this was more down to the turmoil within the Levesque government's narrow majority and division over the notorious Bill 101 than anything the Progressive Conservatives did themselves. A u-turn halfway through the parliamentary term towards deflationary budgets only worsened the recession, and Wagner's involvement in a string of financial scandals and controversies left him frequently distracted as the party headed for another defeat, as a reborn Social Credit party began attracting the votes of Quebec nationalists.

The Liberals had done their own u-turns in opposition; they came to power promising radical economic reforms akin to those taking place in Britain and Canada. The Turner Ministry saw widespread deregulations and privatisations of huge swathes of the Canadian economy, along with a free-trade agreement with the United States. With the Progressive Conservatives also led by converts to neoliberalism, the fight against this paradigm shift was made mainly by the third parties, whose popularity boomed as a consequence. While the Canadian economy boomed for several years by the end of the decade it had sunk back into recession, high inflation and massive budget deficits. Turner announced his retirement after the Liberals lost their majority and a change in leadership could not save the party from its deep unpopularity.

Orman came to power promising balance the budget to slay the dragons that the Liberals couldn't, in the form of further restructuring and shrinking of the state. Orman presided over more privatisations and deep cuts to Canada's welfare state, justified by the Liberals' dishonesty and mismanagement in economic matters. The scope and specificity of the austerity programmes seemed to in many cases be targeted against the Liberal and New Democratic base in big cities, just as the Liberals' most painful restructuring measures in the 1980s had been targeted at the rural, western communities that formed the Tory base. While an extra-parliamentary anti-austerity movement blossomed, along with all manner of activist movements a diverse range of social causes (culminating in the famous New Year's Siege, where Indigenous Protestors broke into the Houses of Parliament in response to the Orman government's disregarding of court judgments regarding eminent domain on unceded territory), the parliamentary opposition struggled to tap into the backlash, the Liberals especially being too closely associated with the Orman's agenda.

Like in 1968, 1957 and 1948, the Liberals could only be renewed by an outsider. Maude Barlow had in fact come to prominence opposing much of the Turner government's agenda of privatisations and free trade but had successfully stood as a star candidate in 1996 and beat former cabinet minister Ralph Klein to the leadership in a landslide. Barlow shifted the Liberals back to the left and ran on a platform of renewal: reviving investment in public services, making Canada more relevant in the world stage in the aftermath of NATO's dissolution, and most prominently a proper constitutional settlement, one that was not only wholly Canadian but could satisfy a diverse array of groups from Quebec nationalists to indigenous communities. While provincial governments and the Ashdown Ministry in London have been co-operative, it remains to be seen whether Barlow's "grand bargain" can be achieved before she is up for re-election.
 
Metro 2033: ATLB

President of the Soviet Union/Russian Union:

1991-1995: Valentin Pavlov (CPSU)
1992 (With Boris Gromov) def: Alexander Rutskoy (Independent), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPSU), Aman Tuleyev (Independent)
1995-1996: Boris Gromov (CPSU)
1996-2000: Gavriil Popov (Democratic Russia)

1996 (With Galina Starovoytova) def: Viktor Alksnis (National Revival), Aman Tuleyev (Popular Left Union), Ruslan Khasbulatov (Social Democratic)
2000-2010: Alexander Lebed (Rodina)†
2000 (With Gennadiy Seleznyov) def: Galina Starovoytova (Democratic Russia), Ruslan Khasbulatov (Social Democratic), Yevgeny Dzhugashvili (Labour Front)
2004 (With Gennadiy Seleznyov) def: Yevgeny Dzhugashvili (Labour Front), Yury Boldyrev (Democratic Russia)
2008 (With Sergey Baburin) def: Pavel Grudinin (United Opposition), Rifat Shaykhutdinov (Civic Reform)

2010-2012: Sergey Baburin (Rodina)
2012-2013: Vladimir Shamanov (Independent leading Great Patriotic Coalition)
2013: Sovereign State Government is mostly destroyed by Nuclear Bombardment, Society moves underground or distantly away from Radiation.

“There was once an old man in the Metro, he had somehow lived through much of the chaos of his life without gaining a scratch. He claimed he was a rebirth of Tsar Nicholas I and the he been given good luck as a reward for his predecessors good luck. He used to tell me about the chaotic times before the Last War. He used to tell me about the end of the Soviet Union, not what the Red Line claimed, that dirty Fascists had destroyed the great Communist nation and lead to a World War...

No, that was later, he would wheeze before continuing on with his story. He had been a solider then and told me he had helped drive tanks towards the White House. He joked he had been the one to kill Yeltsin when he accidentally ran him over. Who Yeltsin was a conversation that lasted a good half an hour.

But yes, some fat banker became Soviet Leader and was pretty terrible. Not as bad as the early days of the Metro, he said but still bad. In the end, the old man would once again drive tanks towards the White House, this time under the banner of the Vice President and would bring about full democracy.

Well that was the idea, the attempts at Democracy were bungled from the get go, the other nations of the now Sovereign Union would split away, the economy went down the drain and the people felt stagnant. If only the knew was to eventually happen, the old man said.

A strong and brilliant man would appear, uniting the forces of the Patriotic Left and the Sensible Right, or so it seemed at the time. But the old man assured me that Lebed offered a sense of stability that hadn’t been found for years. This stability also came with Russia imposing it’s ideals on to its former appendages of the state. The old man told me about tanks rolling into different nations to restore order and to reincorporate them into the Russian Fold.

But one nation was resistant to the idea, a place called Ukraine. A series of uprisings had lead to some lady becoming in charge of the country and resisting Lebed’s influence. Ukraine decided to join a bloc of nations and Lebed was furious, and tensions between the two nations rose. Border conflicts, armed stand offs and insurgents were what happened.

Then Lebed died in a plane crash flying to a place called Warsaw to sort out a deal. The Russian’s were furious and there New President declared war on Ukraine, which lead to other nations joining the fight and the so called Great Patriotic War begin.

The Old man said he was a lucky one, his military service was near the end and he was stationed in overseeing the functioning of the Metro as a bomb shelter. As the nations begun to overrun Russia, the end would begin.

Supposedly that was the case, he told me that his memory was faulty but that seemed to be the case to what lead to our new existence”.
 
Dukes of Milan:
1395-1402: Gian Galeazzo Visconti
1402-1412: Gian Maria Visconti
1412-1453: Filippo Maria Visconti

Milanese Succession Crises begins after the Duke dies without male issue
1453-1462: Disputed
Between Alfonso V (Trastámara), Charles of Orléans (Valois), Francesco Sforza (Sforza) and Various Habsburgs (Habsburg)


Leadership of the Golden Ambrosian Republic:
1453-1461: Collective Leadership of the 24 Captains and Defenders of Liberties (Guelph-Ghibelline Coalition)

1459: Sforza defects from Venice during the War of Genoa
1461: Sforza declared Dictator of the Republic for the duration of the War

1461-1464: Francesco Sforza (as Dictator)
1464: Sforza attempts to declare himself Duke, is defeated at the Battle of Pavia
1464-1468: Giorgio Lampugnani (Ghibelline)
1464: The Government of the Republic is Reformed with one Captain and Defenders of Liberties and a Council

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Just a little oneshot inspired by my EU4 Milan game where I stayed as the historically short-lived Golden Ambrosian Republic, and the fun government they deployed. I'd like to imagine this coexists with my Dithmarschen>Peasant Germany Campaign.
 
Dukes of Milan:
1395-1402: Gian Galeazzo Visconti
1402-1412: Gian Maria Visconti
1412-1453: Filippo Maria Visconti

Milanese Succession Crises begins after the Duke dies without male issue
1453-1462: Disputed
Between Alfonso V (Trastámara), Charles of Orléans (Valois), Francesco Sforza (Sforza) and Various Habsburgs (Habsburg)


Leadership of the Golden Ambrosian Republic:
1453-1461: Collective Leadership of the 24 Captains and Defenders of Liberties (Guelph-Ghibelline Coalition)

1459: Sforza defects from Venice during the War of Genoa
1461: Sforza declared Dictator of the Republic for the duration of the War

1461-1464: Francesco Sforza (as Dictator)
1464: Sforza attempts to declare himself Duke, is defeated at the Battle of Pavia
1464-1468: Giorgio Lampugnani (Ghibelline)
1464: The Government of the Republic is Reformed with one Captain and Defenders of Liberties and a Council

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Just a little oneshot inspired by my EU4 Milan game where I stayed as the historically short-lived Golden Ambrosian Republic, and the fun government they deployed. I'd like to imagine this coexists with my Dithmarschen>Peasant Germany Campaign.

I love this. All I know about the Ambrosian Republic is from EU4 but I've always wished to see a bit more exploration of it.

A 15th century republican wave would be interesting to say the least.
 
I want to write an Ed Miliband victory TL just so I can use this as the intro quote



EDIT: TBH this works

The POD is the birth of the POV character and at some point the dad, knackered from looking after his toddler daughter stops for a bacon sarnie... the last sarnie

When I'm 64 should be called "For Want of a Sarnie"
 
List of Leaders of the Human Rights Party
2037-2040: Rosalie Tanaka
2040-2041: Khaleesi Dixon
2041: Taylor Brown

The 2036 UK election was primarily based on a difference of opinion about human ownership - Labour wanted to use the new Lock+Chain technology to nationalise people by tethering them to the state for use in projects made necessary by the inundation of East Anglia, while the victorious Tories argued for the privatisation of people, and quickly went some way towards implementing this by allowing Ordinary Working People to use their selves as security for loans (Personal Security). This was of course an aspirational proposal - who doesn't want to live on as part of something immortal, like a large bank or corporation? To be a re-possessed ghost, if you will?

An anarchist collective of rent resisters formed the nucleus of opposition to the philosophical basis of the policy, initially led in wildcat protests by the mysterious underworld figure Rosalie Tanaka. However, eventually her creditors caught up with Tanaka and repossessed her, meaning that she was no longer able to pursue politics. She is now working off her debts in HM Amazon Warehouse Kidderminster, and will be for some time.

The next leader of the insurgency only survived for a few months before resigning by means not provided for in the party constitution (overdose of barbiturates). This is a common way for indebted individuals to escape their obligations, as lenders do take a real risk in making loans on security of an asset that could lose a huge amount of its value when not cared for correctly. NatWest had to sell her internal organs to medical researchers and perverts for well below book price. Anyway, the liquidisation of Dixon's asset was quite a foolish move for her, as her potential economic value had increased significantly since her transition and she'd have been able to clear her debts within a decade.

This left the rump organisation in the hands of Taylor Brown. They were finally killed in a shootout with the Coca Cola Constabulary, but fortunately they survived long enough for the eggs in their ovaries to be repossessed at a substantial profit.

Now, thirty years later, their shadow haunts London like a ghost seen in the mirror, as their face can be seen on hundreds of our twentysomethings - they look at the illicitly stencilled portraits on the walls and see themselves. Soon, I fear, the city will become possessed by a poltergeist.
 
Now, thirty years later, their shadow haunts London like a ghost seen in the mirror, as their face can be seen on hundreds of our twentysomethings - they look at the illicitly stencilled portraits on the walls and see themselves. Soon, I fear, the city will become possessed by a poltergeist.
Strong ‘Difference Engine Ending’ levels of horror going on here.
 
Luminosity

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Former terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan (PKK) handing Turkish dictator Doğu Perinçek (Worker’s) a rose while visiting the front in Jordan.




Prime Ministers of the Republic of Turkey


2003 - 2010: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development majority)
2010 - 2010:
Deniz Baykal (Republican People’s - Nationalist Movement coalition)
Aug 2010: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement)
2010 - 2010: Önder Sav (Republican People’s - Nationalist Movement coalition)
2010 - 2011: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development minority with Nationalist Movement confidence and supply)
2011 - 2011: Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement minority)
2011 - 2012:
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development - Peace and Democracy interim election government)
Nov 2011: Önder Sav (Republican People’s), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement), Selahettin Demirtaş & Gültan Kışanak (Peace and Democracy)
2012 - 2013: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development - People’s Democratic Movement coalition)
Jun 2012: Deniz Baykal (Republican People’s), Selahettin Demirtaş and Pervin Buldan (People’s Democratic Movement), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement)
2013 - 2013: Mustafa Sarıgül (Republican People’s minority with People’s Democratic Movement supply and confidence)
2013 - 2014: Deniz Baykal (Republican People’s minority with People’s Democratic Movement supply and confidence)
2014 - 2014:
Deniz Baykal (Republican People’s)
Mar 2014: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Justice and Development), Deniz Baykal (Republican People’s), Selahettin Demirtaş and Pervin Buldan (People’s Democratic Movement), Devlet Bahçeli (Nationalist Movement)
2014 - 2015: vacant



Presidents of the Republic of Turkey


2000 - 2007: Ahmet Necdet Sezer (Independent)
2007 - 2014: Abdullah Gül (Justice and Development)
2014 - 2021:
İlker Başbuğ (Turkish Armed Forces)

John McCain’s close victory against Hillary Clinton in the 2008 elections had grand repercussions for the rest of the world. Not only did his failure to act accordingly to the worsening financial crisis and invasion of Iran along with Israelis create the Second Great Depression, his support for the uprisings in nations across the Middle-East greatly changed the power balance in the region. Perhaps not as directly affected by McCain’s interventionist policies as its neighbors Turkey’s fate nevertheless was forever changed by the Arizonan’s presence.

For most of the 2010s Turkey was led by the progressive conservative AKP, which for some time seemed to have finally make the nation reconcile with its Ottoman past, as a quixotic alliance of Islamists, Market Liberals, Kurds and Progressives slowly dismantled the military dominated Kemalist consensus. This was not without its own challenges though, as the Sledgehammer arrests and the 2007 Republic protests showcased the existing opposition to Erdogan, though the Prime Minister and his allies pushed their reforms on from emancipation of conservative muslims to finally to fulfilling more and more requirements for EU-membership.

For a while it seemed that even the Great Recession, not yet a depression at that time, would be able to slow down the AKP, as Deputy Prime Minister Babacan’s technocratic reforms got the initially seemed to have gotten the nation out of the financial malaise far quicker than any other European country. However, the American Congress’ decision to invade the Islamic Republic of Iran proved to be a rude awakening for the Turkish government, as markets immediately reacted negatively, and only a few months later millions of refugees flooded the nation.

As much as Erdogan may have wanted to help his Muslim brothers and sisters, the public quickly soured against the Prime Minister. This quickly transformed into a new wave of protests against the AKP government, as secular Turkish citizens were worried that Erdogan wanted to transform Turkish society into a nation just like their Eastern neighbor, and was using its citizens to only fast track this goal. Erdogan reacted much more agressively against these protests than he did three years ago, only having him lose further support. With poll numbers dropping, it was no surprise that backbenchers rebelled, and Erdogan had to call new election.

The 72-year old Deniz Baykal had been a recognizable name in the political arena, since the 1970s, when he served in Ecevit’s centre-left governments. When the politician from Antalya finally became leader of the CHP in 1992 he took the party to a more centrist and dogmatic Kemalist direction, which initially saw the party lose support in the 1990s, until they hit a new low in 1999, as they failed to pass the 10% threshold. However, this proved in many regards to be a hail Mary, as it saw them avoid blame for the 2001 economic crisis and become the main alternative to the AKP.

However unlike Erdogan, Baykal did not have a majority in parliament, and he had to struck a deal with the nationalist MHP. While many in Turkey were initially somewhat hopeful that the new government could solve both the financial and refugee crisis that were at the forefront of Turkish politics. Baykal and Bahceli nevertheless quickly proved the Turkish peoples’ weariness of coalition governments, as they quickly started infighting, while their economic policies consisted out of little more than printing and redistributing money, which only caused inflation. As if things couldn’t get any worse for Baykal, he was forced to resign a few months into his premiership after a leaked video of him having sex with the Minister of Tourism surfaced the internet.

Baykal may have left in shame, but he did have the final say in who would succeed him, and he chose his close ally Önder Sav. If conservatives were worried about Baykal’s secularism, they were outright terrified of Sav. The new Prime Minister immediately tried to lift many of the liberalizations on state secularism, though would be largely unable to convince his coalition partners to join him in this effort. Only a few days after Sav celebrated his birthday, his prime ministership was over, as Baykal announced he lost confidence in the government, and wanted new elections.

Worried about the consensus this could set President Gül quickly invited Bahceli and Erdogan to the Çankaya Mansion, and convinced the latter to support a new AKP government. While Erdogan was convinced he had learned from the mistakes of the past year, and would quickly be able to get a majority again, reality proved not to his liking, as only days after re-entering the prime ministership scandals of various party members were printed all across the national media. Erdogan was convinced that only one group could be behind this.

Since the 1970s there have been conspiracies in Turkey on the existence of a secret deep state. This became progressively less secret, as the existence of such a group was all but confirmed during the 1990s with intelligence agencies, ministers, terrorists, businessmen, and organized crime leaders caught conspiring with each other. However, leading political actors proved to be largely unable, and in many cases unwilling, to combat this problem. It wasn’t until Erdogan came into office that the group was slowly weakened, though not without its difficulties, as the secular ultranationalist group still largely existed deep in the shadows of the Turkish state.

When Erdogan re-entered office he quickly noted that they had largely regrouped, largely thanks to the MHP. Initially, he tried to combat this by once again supporting bureaucrats of the Gülen movement, a Pro-Western Islamist fraternal movement/cult, though without a parliamentary majority he was largely unable to do so. In these efforts, Erdogan neglected the worsening economic problems, once again aiding in his increasing unpopularity, though at least a vote of no confidence seemed unlikely, as he and Bahceli had reached an agreement.

However, this changed when the Prime Minister’s son was caught funneling millions of liras out of the country. Erdogan tried to paint the scandal as an attack on himself by “secret organizations”, but when a phone recording of the father and son surfaced, which showed compromising evidence, he once again had to leave the office, as Bahceli served as caretaker until new elections were held.

The past three years had seriously hurt both the CHP and AKP, and for a short while it seriously seemed as if Bahceli would finish the elections in first place. The nationalist’s lackluster efforts at combatting the growing economic crisis, and corruption scandals of his own saw his poll numbers quickly fall again, and he finished the elections once again in third place. While the fact that no party managed to even get 30% was surprising, the biggest surprise of the election was the incredible result for Turkey’s newest parliamentary party

Years of economic crisis had seriously dampened the faith of the Turkish public in the existing political parties, and thus it should be no surprise that a new left-wing alliance entered parliament. However, this movement being led by the Kurdish movement, and getting a whopping 18% was. The Kurds had so far failed to get more than 7%, and now with their socialist and liberal allies, they more than doubled their best ever result.

Despite initially announcing that they would not support a coalition led by Erdogan, Demirtas came back from this promise, and entered a caretaker government with the Islamist, as no majority was able to be formed in parliament, and new elections would be held only a few months later. When these elections proved to once again not be able to combine the necessary numbers for a majority in parliament, despite a last minute effort for a AKP-CHP coalition, Demirtas decided to continue his coalition with the AKP, as he extracted major reforms for Kurds and other minorities.

The AKP-HDP coalition proved to be something of a horror story for the deep state, especially when the two combined started challenging it again. The Kurdish language became the all but official co-language in the Southeast, civil unions for same-sex couples were legalized, and the government started negotiations with the PKK for an end to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, despite protests from Bahceli and his nationalist allies.

A slow economic uptick following the landslide election of Barack Obama only proved to be further good news for Erdogan, who saw his poll numbers rise increasingly, and was already slowly preparing to dump the Kurds. However, he would never be able to do so. Demirtas and his allies were ready to ignore Erdogan’s corrupt past, but new corruption scandals for prominent AKP members put a serious strain on the coalition. The HDP found it increasingly hard to justify its alliance with Erdogan, and when the man himself was embroiled in another major political scandal, they had seen enough, and announced a step back from government.

Initially, new elections seemed all but inevitable, but quick handling from new CHP leader Mustafa Sarigül saw his party re-enter government with confidence and supply from the Kurds. The energetic reformist would lead the most left-wing government in Turkish history, and was considered to be part of a wider movement with the likes of Obama and Montebourg. Backed by a strong team of left-wing economists Sarigül seemed to have paved the way for the recovery of the Turkish economy, even as its neighbor Greece fell into increasing turmoil with the European Union. For the first time in years the Turkish people seemed to be hopeful about their future again, though a new scandal once again changed this, as it was revealed that the Prime Minister had physically assaulted the wife of a political rival when he was the Mayor of Sisli. Sarigül resigned, and a criminal investigation was started, while the CHP’s factions were unable to reach a consensus candidate until they once again settled for Baykal.

Though some in the HDP were worried about Baykal’s more nationalistic views, the bigger worry for many was his health, as the Prime Minister spent more and more time visiting hospitals, while the Turkish economy slowly entered a recession again. This situation caused many to draw parallels with the last Ecevit government a decade ago, which also saw a sick Prime Minister refusing to resign, and an economic crisis. However, the HDP were willing to back the PM for some time, though this also came to an end as they opposed his proposals for austerity politics, and saw their own polling numbers slowly fall again. It was thus for these reasons, that Turkey once again went to the polls in March 2014.

If the past couple of elections had shown the nation one thing, it was that the democratic system still worked, and governments could be formed. The Turks were no Greeks who had fallen to a fascist military coup led by the Golden Dawn movement. These perceived superiorities would be challenged by the new elections though, as for the first time there genuinely seemed no possibility of a new government formation, with all four parties refusing to compromise on not wanting Erdogan or old man Baykal as PM, or not wanting to form a coalition with the “fascists” or “terrorists”. Baykal led the country as interim, while Gül’s term as President was also coming to an end, and the country suddenly had two offices to fill. Erdogan tried to reach a power sharing agreement with Baykal giving the latter the PM spot, while he would succeed his former deputy Gül as President, but a wheelchair-bound Baykal flatly rebuked this offer.

Whit Turkey’s democracy increasingly unable to govern itself an increasing number of bureaucrats and military officials were questioning the validity of the system. Most of this just stayed with philosophical conversations, though some young officers slowly started to hatch plans in secret. These plans came into fruition when a Greek terrorist, posing as a tourist, opened fire on a crowd in Istanbul killing hundreds. Parliament’s response was once again considered to be not good enough.

Only a week after this event Turkey woke up with young military officials having successfully committed a coup, the new President, recently resigned Chief of Staff İlker Başbuğ, only learning about this plan and his new role as president a few hours earlier by some of the coup plotters. Martial Law was implemented throughout the country, parliament abolished, the constitution suspended and later on replaced, and all political parties and movements were banned. On top of this some political leaders, most notably Erdogan and Demirtas, were imprisoned by the new military governments. Despite protests from the West, Turkey once again found itself without a civilian government.

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Prime Ministers of the Republic of Turkey

2014 - 2015:
vacant
2015 - 2021: Doğu Perinçek (Patriot)
Jun 2015: Tuncay Özkan (New Party)
Jun 2020: Osman Pamukoğlu (New Party), Metin Feyzioğlu (Republican People’s), Tuğrul Türkeş (Nationalist Movement)

2021 - 2023: Kemal Kerinçsiz (Patriot)



Presidents of the Republic of Turkey

2014 - 2021: İlker Başbuğ (Turkish Armed Forces)
2021 - 2023:
Doğu Perinçek (Patriot)



Having found itself in a state of war with its neighbor Greece, the Turkish public seemed to be largely willing to back the new military government. Despite initially crossing the Martisa river, the Greek army found itself unable to reach the Marmara sea, and with reinforcements coming in from the Iranian border, plus the aid of American air support, Turkey was able to push the Greeks back over the border. On top of this Greek islands were slowly being conquered by the Turkish navy one by one. With the war slowly coming to a halt calls for peace grew, and ultimately peace talks led by Russian Prime-Ministee Naryshkin, who came to power following Putin’s death in a conspiratorial plane crash.

With peace having returned to Turkey, President Basbug was preparing plans for a return to a democratic state of affairs. Basbug, not being a fan on the military coup that brought him into office, wanted the implementation of a French-style Semi-Presidential system, and told his juniors that he would not run in the next election. Fearing that the president would turn on them, especially after his sympathetic words for the plight of the supporters of the still imprisoned Demirtas, the young military officials decided to speed up their plans.

As all of them were subscribers to the Luminosity movement, they believed that the Turkish revolution would happen in two steps. They already fulfilled the first step by staging a military coup, though the second step, the proletariat revolution, would have to be hastened significantly, due to the possible counterrevolutionary in the presidency. It was thus that dozens of military officials, without consulting the President, announced the appointment of Acting Secretary of Justice Dogu Perincek as Peime-Minister.

This announcement was received by wide spread protests from Islamists, liberals, Kurds, and other leftists. Perincek had been imprisoned from 2008 to 2012 on allegations of planning a coup, though largely proven to be a false, and the Turkish public still did not trust him, each for different reasons. Kurds saw in him an ultranationalist who would role back the rights they had gained over the past few years, liberals saw him as a Maoist who would dismantle the free market and severe relations with the West, while Islamists and other conservatives were critical of his unapologetic left-wing and secular views. Needless to say there was wide scale opposition to his appointment, but the heavy handed armed forces quickly put any protests that threatened to happen down.

These fears proved to be largely true, only months into his Prime Ministership Perincek announced Turkey’s withdrawal from NATO, and that it would instead seek closer relations with China and especially Russia. This, needless to say, worried Western leaders, but with the new non-interventionist consensus in American foreign policy limited their possibilities. He would also once again ban the use of the hijab in public spaces, and brand many religious institutions as terroristic organizations, while at the same time rolling back LGBTQ+ rights. Big businesses were not safe either, as in order to realize his ‘National Democratic Revolution’ Perincek would nationalize many key industries and businesses, which unsuccessfully tried to flee West with their assets. Lastly, Perincek also all but destroyed the Kurdish political movement, though he did not return to the horror days of the 1980s, and instead largely respected, and in some instances even expanded, the status of the Kurdish language and Kurdish nationhood, despite protests from some of his allies.

Perincek’s early years were not all bad though, as he supported plans to improve gender equality, which due to their archaic nature only had limited success, and his release of convicted terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan, despite massive protests with hundreds of casualties, helped in stopping the conflict with the PKK. As the 2010s were coming to and end Perincek had established an hegemonic status over Turkish politics, becoming the most powerful politician since Atatürk, though this era would also
see him faced with his biggest personal problem to date, the increasingly worsening relations between China and Russia.

In Perincek’s world view China and Russia should be natural allies against the United States and other Western powers. However, Naryshkin’s expansionist government was at odds with Bo Xilai’s PRC, which had slowly been returning to its Maoist roots since the Second Great Depression. Despite Perincek’s efforts to improve relations between the two, he eventually came to the conclusion that he had to pick a side, which was a lot easier said than done. He had been a Maoist since he was a teenager, and thus held great sympathy to Xilai’s government, while on the other hand Dugin’s sway over the Russian government, and its increasingly anti-Western and militaristic rhetoric greatly impressed him as well. Ultimately, Perincek chose for Russia, as he concluded that anti-Americanism is more important than anything else. A few months later, Russia along with other former Soviet states formed the Eurasian Federation, which intended to include the missing parts like the Baltics and Georgia at a later date.

This later date would be 17 November 2020, as Eurasian troops invaded the Baltic states, and kicked off the Third World War. To the surprise of many in the West, shred through NATO armies like paper, and one after the other European capital fell, as Kazakh troops reached the beaches of Normandy. It was only then that Turkey finally joined the war, as it played an important role in the occupation of West European cities with large Turkish populations, which most of the time were quite wary of the Perincek regime, especially those that had fled it over the past years.

Turkey found itself the odd member out in this new Europe, as most of its new allies were led by Eurasian installed far-right puppet regimes, which generally did not hold positive views on Turks, though they were forced to hide it, and the far-left, which played a role in puppet governments in almost all of Europe, even leading some like the Czech Republic, were largely looking at Turkey for ideological inspiration. Nonetheless, Perincek was looking at the Middle-East, as he deemed the annexation of Cyprus not enough, and invaded the quasi-independent Republic of Iraqi Kurdistan.

In Iraq, the Turkish Armed Forces proved to be surprisingly weak, and they once again had to be bailed out by a stronger ally, this time Eurasia. Instead of learning from this experience, Perincek instead pushed further, and aided the Iranians in their war against the Saudis, and the other Arab states, while also aiding Assas in pressuring the Israelis to hand increasingly large amounts of territory back territory to the Palestinian forces.

One of the most defining elements of Turkey’s role in the Middle-East was the ideological vigor with which it fought the Muslim Brotherhood led states across the Middle-East. Branding the conflict as a civilizational one, and arguing that Turkey would finish Atatürks dream of a secular socialist Middle-East. Though initially successful due to Eurasian backing, Turkish and other pro-Eurasian forces were slowly being pushed back by NATO and its allies, most notably India.

The war also had a negative effect on the homefront, as initial nationalistic support had largely down, and the worsening living standards had lowered Perincek’s popularity at home. This was not necessarily a huge issue at first, but following the Liberation of Cyprus, and especially the invasion of Alanya, it started to become clear to the Turkish people that they were fighting a losing war. This had an important psychological effect, as it increased support for the partisan fighting, which had been erupting across the nation, and consisted of wide-ranging ideologies from Islamism, to communism, to liberalism.

The Turkish Armed Forces and especially the Eurasians fought against these partisans with increasing violence, which only increased support for them by the populace, as they felt like they were an occupied nation. At the same time American troops were liberating Berlin and Tirana, Eurasian forces were slowly being pushed out of China, Indian forces had crossed the Iranian border, Turkish forces held less and less Saudi lands, and Greek communist partisans liberated the southern part of their nation. Only a few months later NATO troops liberated Sofia, and from there entered Turkey. When it became clear to the Turkish government that they would be unable to defend Istanbul, they reached the conclusion that Perincek had to go, and asked the Americans and their allies for peace.

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Presidents of the Worker’s Republic of Turkey

2023 - 2025: Doğu Perinçek (Worker’s)
2025 - 2025: Mehmet Perinçek (Worker’s)



Presidents of the Republic of Turkey


2023 - 2023: Hulusi Akar (Turkish Armed Forces)
2023 - 2026: David L. Goldfein (United States Air Force)


Prime Ministers of the Republic of Turkey


2023 - 2024: Hulusi Akar (Turkish Armed Forces)
2024 - 2024: Cem Toker (Liberal Democrat)
2024 - 2026: Ali Babacan (Liberal Democrat)



Perincek’s removal from the Presidency, and the hanging of PM Kerincsiz did not mean the end conflict in Turkey. With the aid of Eurasian forces Perincek re-established himself in East Turkey, and formed the Worker’s Republic. Perincek tried to regain the trust of the Turkish people by nationalizing the few companies that were left, and finally moving to a Marxist-Leninist system of economics and society, but he was unable to combat the increasing sympathy that the Turkish resistance enjoyed. This was made all the worst when the Kurdish resistance, with American intelligence aid, overnight reappeared, and further pushed Perincek into a corner.

At the same time Hulusi Akar, probably the most pro-Western general at that time, handed power over Turkey largely to NATO, who established one of their own in Goldfein, though he largely seemed to be an appointment due to internal politicking within the American armed forces. The occupying forces slowly started to reintegrate a civilian government into Turkey, though due to a decade of Perincek found little political movements left that were sufficiently non-fascistic. The Americans ultimately settled on Cem Toker and the Liberal Democrats, who were one of the few legal genuine opposition parties, the others being controlled opposition, though Toker’s incompetence quickly made apparent why he was allowed to criticize the Prime Minister on national television. Pretty much the day he entered office, Toker attempted to privatize key industries, without taking into consideration their importance for the war effort. Only a few weeks after Toker was inagurated, Goldfein had to personally ask an increasingly ailing President Biden for permission to remove him from office. Toker would be released by Erdogans former number two, Ali Babacan, who had been in a teaching position in Georgetown.

Whit the war increasingly coming to a close tensions between the Chinese and Americans started to slightly worsen, as they tried to reach an agreement on who would get what. Perincek tried to convince the Chinese to forgive him and support him, though they obviously never returned his calls. When Dugin and Naryshkin became aware of his plans to cross them, they decided they were done with him, and arranged his death by getting him to visit Dersim/Tunceli where he would be caught, hanged and shot by the Turkish and Kurdish resistance. Dogu Perincek, the last living member of the Turkish 1968 generation, suffered a similar fate as his former brothers in law, although they became folk heroes, while Perincek was regarded as the worst thing that happened to Turkey. He would be succeeded by his more pro-Eurasian son, though he would be caught a few months later, and given the death sentence by a more formal court. The war would officially end following the Eurasian capitulation after the fall of Moscow in early December 2025.

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Presidents of the Federal Republic of Turkey


2026 - 2031: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (Independent)


Prime-Ministers of the Federal Republic of Turkey


2026 - 2030: Ahmet Davutoğlu (New Democratic majority)

2026: Ahmet Şık (Communist), Ali Babacan (Liberal Democrat), Muharrem İnce (Social Democrat)
2028: Ahmet Şık (Popular Front), Sedat Peker (Journey)

2030 - 2036: Ekrem İmamoğlu (New Democratic majority)



Co-Presidents of the Democratic Federation of the Upper Middle-East


2025 - 2030: Hevrin Khalaf and Selahettin Demirtaş (New Democracy)

2026: various
2027: various
2029: Ahmed Khalil and Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman (Kurdistan Peace and Prosperity Alliance)



The end of WW3 started a new era for Turkey, as the Republic was officially dismantled, and a federation was put into place. While Kilicdaroglu, leader of the bureaucracy during the NATO occupation, was an easy pick for the presidency, the prime-ministership saw a lot more discussion among decision makers. Babacan’s work was greatly appreciated by the Americans and British, but with a new cold war brewing with the Chinese, his anti-communist credentials were questioned, which were especially important as former journalist turned partisan Ahmet Sik and his communist movement led some polls. NATO ultimately landed on another former Erdogan ally, Ahmet Davutoglu.

Not only was Davutoglu more conservative, and therefore explicitly anti-communist, he was also supportive of American interventionism, and envisioned an important role for Turkey as an American ally against the People’s Republic of China. As prime minister Davutoglu worked on his goals of a Hellenoturkic union, though when this failed he largely settled on closer cooperation through the European Union, of which Turkey became a member in 2029.

At the same time his New Democracy party pushed for legislative reform which established a FPTP system, effectively forcing the electorate into a two party system, aside from Peker’s far-right Journey Party. This way he hoped that his New Democracy party, by now ranging from the centre-left to right-wing, while Sik’s Popular Front was made up of Communists and Socialists. Davutoglu governed for slightly more than four years before announcing his resignation due to health reasons, and was followed by Imamoglu belonging to the centre-left wing of the party.

Turkey did not survive the war in one piece, as the Kurdish majority southeast declared independence, and through a complicated game of politics between Xilai and the new President Kander was allowed to become a part of a neutral Kurdistan. Demirtas, who unlike Erdogan survived his prison years, was liberated from his prison near the Bulgarian border, only days after the invasion of Turkey, and would play a pivotal role in the establishment of a free Kurdistan. Unsurprisingly, he would be the first male co-president of the Democratic Federation, along with Kurdish-Syrian freedom fighter turned politician Hevrin Khalaf.
 
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