Turkish opposition officials say their supporters will take to the streets in “massive protests” if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan follows through on his threat not to concede power if he loses this Sunday’s presidential election.
“My people will not surrender this country to an individual who became president with the backing they received from Kandil,” Erdogan said at a rally last week, referring to a mountainous region in Iraq that the PKK operates from.
On Sunday, a day after Bahceli’s comments, violence broke out when ultranationalists threw rocks at a rally of a top CHP official, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who was campaigning in a town that voted for Erdogan in the 2018 presidential election. Soylu has backed up his claim of “a political coup attempt” with video of President Joe Biden stating he would support the opposition to defeat Erdogan.
The Twitter account of Fahrettin Altun, the director of the president’s communications office, responded that its priority is fighting disinformation and the fact the CHP leader was uncomfortable with Altun showed that his office was “on the right track.” During a television interview with the CHP candidate Kilicdaroglu in January, a commercial was played for a military company that he has accused of being a paramilitary group connected to Erdogan. “He may consider using various vehicles or agents but my bottom line is that it’s just not going to work,” Ozcan said.
Both Ogan and the CHP’s Ozcan said that an opposition candidate winning in the first round would help ensure stability in the country. “If the elections don’t conclude democratically, the Turkish people will use their democratic right to protest,” Ogan said.
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