Against all odds o Recep Tayyip Erdogan not just won the first round of Turkish presidential elections two weeks ago, but he also secured a 49.62% safety rate that allows him to now appear as the undisputed favorite for Sunday’s second round.
The coalition of the united opposition parties under the Kemal Kilicdaroglu he did not confirm the estimates of international analysts as he received 44.89% of the votes and his room for maneuver during the election campaign was not great. Mr. Erdogan, despite the explosion of inflation and the rapid decline in the standard of living of millions of citizens in the neighboring country, seems to be coming out unscathed once again, despite any accusations against him, while he even gave an answer to those who spoke of ” dictatorship’ in Turkey.
“Nonsense about dictatorship”
“We not only saw the strength of Turkish democracy at the ballot box on May 14, but we also witnessed the deflation of false perceptions. So what were they? It was the “dictatorship” slander in Turkey. It was the insidious psychological pressure from the international press.
It was the lies and deceptions repeated by the opposition. It was the politics of fear fueled by the president of the CHP (representative of Mr. Kilicdaroglu who leads the Republican People’s Party) and his company,” Mr. Erdogan said in a tweet just last Thursday.
And he continued: “We have proven that the claims of a dictatorship are pure nonsense. We have shown that our nation cannot be swayed by magazine covers. We have shown that the will of the Turkish nation cannot be chained. We have shown that elections cannot be won with lies, slander and fear.
Apart from many other events, we have once again shown to the whole world the level of maturity of our democracy in the last 21 years and our foresight. We achieved this together with 85 million people, regardless of which political party they voted for. I hope that after May 28, all these achievements of our country will continue. Together, we will take it much further.”
Where is Kilicdaroglu betting?
In the last twenty-four hours, however, Kemal Kilicdaroglu has acquired important allies, who are none other than the pro-Kurdish parties of the country, who declare that they will support the opposition’s presidential candidate in the second round of the elections.
Pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Vice President Pervin Buldan said we will vote to end the “one man rule”, noting that “the strange regime created by Erdogan and his partners is the cause of the social problems being experienced”. .
And HDP co-chair Mithat Sanjar called on voters who did not vote in the first round to go to the polls now in the second to oust Erdogan, who is seeking to extend his twenty-year stay in power.
Mr. Erdogan’s staff has been using all these last days every necessary means, legitimate or illegitimate, in order to discredit the opposition and portray Kilicdaroglu as a traitor. Supporters of the Turkish president tried with fake news to boost Mr. Erdogan’s campaign by using on the Internet fake election posters of the official opposition.
One of them features the logo of the Republican People’s Party and states: “For us, the YPG (including the Kurdish militias of northern Syria) is not a terrorist organization. Decide now!” However, from the analysis of the authenticity of the poster, which was done by Teyit.org, it was shown that this poster is fake and does not belong to the party’s official campaign.
The practice of fake news against the opposition was widespread even before the first round of the elections, but according to observers the disinformation intensified and systematized ahead of the second round of the elections.
Source: News Beast
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