Correct, you can survive for a very long period of not eating before the body starts consuming itself, but you can't survive long without water intake.
" .....vote wisely at the ballot box things would change." unlikly as fault will be found with the vote and it will be disqualified / banned or whatever excuse they can find to invalidate the votes.
Agree, I don't have any dog in this fight, nor do I follow any religious doctrine, but to upset so many people, many of them without any ties to Turkey is simply a stupid move.