In the Paris, Berlin or Copenhagenthe vote for them Turkish citizens living abroad will conclude tonight, five days before crucial presidential and parliamentary elections in which the president’s future is under threat Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish president rules here and 20 years and for the first time he is facing a six-party coalition, led by the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Erdogan, backed by ultra-nationalist and Islamist factions, also faces a economic crisis which hurts his popularity.
According to data from the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK), by late last night more than half (51%) of the 3.4 million registered overseas voters. Turnout is up slightly from the 2018 election, when Turks abroad, who make up about 5 percent of the 64.1 million voters, voted for Erdogan at 60 percent. Erdogan’s approval rating reached 63.7% in France, 64.8% in Germany, 73% in the Netherlands and 74.9% in Belgium, the four European countries that host the largest Turkish communities abroad.
In Germany, 642,000 people have voted so far today, with Yunus Olusoy of the Center for Turkish Studies in Essen. Compared to 2018, there is a 19% increase in participation.
The polls, which had been opened by April 27 in 73 countries, have already been closed since yesterday in many of them, including USA and Canada, from where huge white, sealed ballot bags have already started to be transported by air to Turkey.
In many European capitals they were formed queues at polling stations the last days. “I am here because the situation in Turkey is horrible. I want to go back one day. And that’s why I came to vote, I want the leader to changeKutay Yilmaz, 29, told AFP on the first day of voting in Berlin.
In some cases, as in Marseille and Amsterdamthere were incidents between opponents and supporters of Erdogan.
Source: News Beast
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