“Turkish Election Update: CHP Mayor Calls for Disregard of Anadolu Figures”

2023-05-14 17:44:37

The third candidate Sinan Ogan, a dissident from the nationalist MHP party, would be around 5% of the vote. CHP Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, speaking at the party headquarters in Ankara and specifying speaking “au nom de Kemal Kilicdaroglu“, called the citizens “to disregard the figures given by Anadolu“.

“We don’t believe Anadolu“, he said, news agency according to him”on life support since 2019” and that “lost all respect“.

An allusion to the tutelage of power over the main major Turkish media. The channel close to the CHP Halk TV broadcast figures on Sunday evening giving Kiliçdaroglu a slight lead, 47.71% once morest 46.5% for Erdogan.

“We won’t let our fellow citizens be fooled“, assured Ekrem Imamoglu who had seen his election as mayor of Istanbul invalidated in 2019, before being confirmed with brilliance at the polls three months later.

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