Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in Istanbul on Friday
as a part of his penultimate rallies earlier than Sunday’s elections. In
his first stopover, Erdogan addressed a crowd within the Sultangazi
district on the European facet earlier than heading to Bahcelievler,
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The president stated some 50,000 individuals convened for the rally,
boasting a excessive turnout that has been evident in his previous
rallies.
Erdogan said that the opposition bloc led by his important rival
Kemal Kilicdaroglu “acted with the motivation of greed and
revenge,” after their previous defeats.
“We can’t settle for this ugliness,” he stated, referring to what he
referred to as a smear marketing campaign. With out naming names, Erdogan stated it was
the identical energy “that pressured Meral Akshener again to the opposition
bloc after she stepped down,” which “pressured Muharrem Ince to
withdraw from the candidacy three days earlier than the election.”
Akshener, head of Good Celebration (IP), had earlier introduced that
she would depart the six-party alliance earlier than all of the sudden altering her
thoughts and endorsing Kilicdaroglu. Ince, who challenged Erdogan once more
in 2018, resigned from the election race, citing a smearing
marketing campaign by the Gulenist Terror Group (FETO) towards him,
“supported by the opposition.”
Erdogan accused Kilicdaroglu of being a “puppet of that energy,”
which noticed him “cheering Qandil,” in reference to the hub of the PKK
terrorist group in northern Iraq.
He additionally criticized Kilicdaroglu over his claims that Russia
interfered in Turkish elections by way of deep faux content material. “It’s a
disgrace. What are you able to say if I inform you that america,
Britain and Germany manipulate the elections?” he stated.
“They used the identical methodology to take over a political occasion and
used it once more, towards a reputation who challenged me within the final
election, from their very own occasion,” he stated. Erdogan was referring to
the resignation of late CHP Chair Deniz Baykal, who stepped down
after a intercourse tape scandal blamed on FETO. Kilicdaroglu succeeded
Baykal as CHP’s chief.
Erdogan additionally heaped criticism on “the West.” “We’re competing
towards these making an attempt to disrupt the ‘Century of Türkiye,’” he stated,
referring to his bold imaginative and prescient of a sequence of megaprojects and
reforms within the centenary of the Republic of Türkiye. “Magazines
have covers studying ‘Erdogan should go.’ It’s none of what you are promoting.
The West can’t resolve it. It’s as much as my nation,” he added.
