2023-05-13 18:39:59
Time.news – The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan closed the electoral campaign in the neighborhood of Kasimpasahis stronghold in Istanbul, the area where his father moved from the Black Sea and where the Turkish leader looking for a difficult reconfirmation grew up and took his first steps in politics.
“Are you ready for victory? There is no Turkey without us, you are Turkey and tomorrow we will shout it loud and clear to the world,” he harangued a frenzied crowd that cheered him as ‘son of Kasimpasa’. In the background of the crowd, the procession of supporters of the local team passes by, lighting smoke bombs and praising the president “There is only one president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan”.
In addition to having renovated and cleaned up a neighborhood that was run-down and dangerous in past decades, Erdogan has also built the stadium. The people here love him and welcome him like a son, many families flocked to listen to him and reassure him before the ballot box is considered complicated to say the least. But the polls that give challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu a slight lead at least for today, here in Kasimpasa, can be left aside and confidence can take over worries.
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Erdogan then listed the results obtained by his government with a very long video showing the infrastructure built, the new Turkish Togg machine, the conquests of the defense industry, the gas fields in the Black Sea and the oil found in the east.
“We will achieve energy independence, we will cut costs. Turkey is big and continues to grow, we will become stronger and stronger”, good slogans for a crowd that loves him and will love him regardless, who do not want a Turkey without him just know.
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“We love him as much as we love Allah, I voted for him and I will always vote for him”, said a lady who came to the rally with two children. “He is a world-class leader, he made this country important. Now we don’t take orders from anyone, if the Americans get over it,” a middle-aged man says loudly to overcome the noise of the crowd. Then it’s up to the ‘enemies’. The images of Kilicdaroglu pass on the screen, but also the pro-Kurdish HDP, the secretary Pervin Buldan, the leader Selattin Demirtas in prison since 2016 and the terrorists of the Pkk. A roar of whistles starts.
“Mr. Kemal (Kilicdaroglu ed) is in cahoots with the terrorists, he wants to free Demirtas and support the PKK. We fought the terrorists, hit them and drove them out of the country. Now Mr. Kemal has allied himself with those who killed the our children”, Erdogan harangues the crowd who continue to boo the images that scroll on the screen. For the last appointment before the elections, Erdogan abandoned the low profile that had characterized his television intervention last night, when he defined the elections as “the celebration of democracy for the future of the country”.
And defined as “nonsense” the rumors that say that, even in case of defeat, he will not relinquish power. “If our nation decides otherwise we will do what democracy requires, period,” Erdogan said yesterday. Negative thoughts that have been set aside today. His people, Kasimpasa’s people, really don’t want to hear about defeat.
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