On March 27, Abdulkadir Selvi, a columnist close to the Turkish Palace, revealed in preview the main lines of the campaign of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party, the AKP.
“
It will be a positive election campaign
”,
“the president will have a unifying speech” and “the AKP campaign will use positive themes”,
he wrote in the
Hürriyet.
Either the columnist was misinformed, or the government has changed its mind.
In this campaign, even more than before, Tayyip Erdogan is working to divide the united front of his adversaries, and society as a whole.
The Head of State stigmatizes, criminalizes the opposition alliance that he faces in the legislative elections and the candidate of this alliance for the presidential election, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu.
The Turks who do not vote for him are suspected of supporting or, worse, of belonging to the camp of the "
putschists
", "
terrorists
", "
separatists
".
They are accused of allying themselves with members of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party, a classified terrorist group)...
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