The candidate of the united opposition for the Turkish presidency called the president a “forger” today Recep Tayyip Erdogan for citing an edited video to claim that Kilicdaroglu is linked to his outlawed Labor Party Kurdistanahead of the second round of the presidential election on Sunday.
Erdogan repeated the claim and referred to this edited video, which features him Kemal Kilicdaroglu with a Kurdish fighter, in an interview he gave late Monday night on state television TRTalthough the opposition had criticized him for using it at the start of his election campaign as well.
The origin of this video is unknown.
Answering, through TwitterThe Kilicdaroglu she wrote: “I am tired of being slandered, but he is not tired of being slandered.”
Erdogan’s political opponents see the charges he is unleashing as a symptom of a media landscape that has tilted heavily in his favor after a decade of transformation, jailing journalists and shutting down critical outlets. This fact, they say, gives voters a different reflection of reality ahead of the election.
The Reporters Without Borders rank Turkey 165th out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom.
No evidence from Erdogan
THE Erdoganseeking to rally the nationalists, has repeatedly hinted that the opposition maintains ties with the PKKwithout providing evidence, as reported by the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency.
The video, shown at a campaign rally for the Islamic conservative president on May 7, includes footage from a campaign video of his Kilicdaroglu and images from a video of it PKK which was posted online 10 months ago and shows Kurdish fighters cheering on their commander, Murat Karagilan. Referring to that video on Monday, Erdogan again accused Kilicdaroglu of working with the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization in Turkey and the West.
“THE Kilicdaroglu takes videos of terrorists in Candil“, he said, referring to the PKK base in Iraq’s Qandil mountains. “Edited or not, they took videos of them in Qandil, and PKK members are showing their support for Kilicdaroglu through videos,” he said.
In his reply on Twitter, Kilicdaroglu called Erdoğan a “copper video maker”. Dozens of users took to social media to express their outrage, with the hashtag “editing” ranking fourth on Twitter this afternoon.
In his own response, always via Twitter, Fahrettin Altunthe communications director of the Turkish presidency, accused him Kilicdaroglu for insulting the president. The people “will teach a lesson” to those who insult Erdogan, he said.
Emre Kizilkaya, the head of Turkey’s national committee at the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), said Turkey was subjected to “an unprecedented level of organized disinformation” throughout the election campaign. “Truth and facts have come under concerted attack from multiple sources, with the government playing a central role in this troubling phenomenon, as evidenced by Erdogan’s tactic of smearing the opposition through various channels,” he said.
THE Kilicdaroglu it is supported by a six-party coalition and the pro-Kurdish HDP, which is often accused by Erdogan of having links to the PKK, which the party itself denies.
Source: News Beast
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