Correspondent in Istanbul (Turkey)
If nationalism were a candidate, he would be the big winner of the Turkish elections. Less than a week before a second round without much suspense, where Recep Tayyip Erdogan has every chance of winning, the campaign between the two rounds has taken a particularly virulent turn with far-right arguments dominating political discourse, all tendencies combined. "Kemal Kiliçdaroglu is desperate. He who promised the "return of spring" and "peaceful democracy" will rake on the ultranationalist terrain in the hope of winning votes, "regrets a human rights defender, who prefers not to name. At the origin of the change of tone of recent days: an operation of seduction towards the voters of the ultranationalist Sinan Ogan, eliminated from the race and ready for all blackmail to negotiate his votes (5.17%), who has finally announced, this Monday evening, his full support for Erdogan.
As early as May 17, Kiliçdaroglu had...
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