Shortly before the municipal elections, the Turkish society is split. President Erdogan is pushing ahead with this split with just one Tweet.
It was late on Tuesday evening, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked with a single Tweet in the social media, a new discussion.
In it, he referred to those who support his “people’s Alliance” between the ultra-national MHP and the Islamic conservative AKP, as a loyal, country-loving people. However, those who follow the opposition “Alliance for the Nation”, in his eyes, “supporters of a terrorist Association”. The calculus, or rather despair, in order to keep the voters of the AKP in the rod?
It is not the first Time that Erdogan – even in front of cameras – has expressed. Premiere is, however, both camps in this way on Twitter and to compare. This is a whole new Dimension to the election propaganda.
The Good and the Bad
31. March held in Turkey municipal elections. In his Tweet erdoğan writes that “two covenants”. His Alliance have already been during the attempted coup on 15. July 2016 on the streets and squares, shown, who will be love of country and Sagittarius. The opposition Alliance was a product of collusion, and political appointments. Turkey is with you no matter.
The President-to be created Alliance “under the command of the Turkish Nation”. The opposition Alliance is under the yoke of the terrorist Kurdish workers ‘ party PKK and the leaders of the coup, namely the Gülen movement. Erdogan goes so far that the Alliance were the defenders of Right and justice. All the others he accused of lying, libel, slander, and denial.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Chairman of CHP, and Meral Aksener, Chairman of the right-nationalist IYI-party close “electoral Alliance”
But that’s not all: Erdogan’s Alliance would only be the servant of the people. The opposition Alliance was only anxious to be the extended Arm of the terrorist organizations in the local councils and the bureaucratic apparatus.
Again and again, Erdogan sought the term Alliance. In doing so, he ignores the fact that in Turkey local elections are no covenants on the ballot. However, it may assist parties to each other in your candidates, what the AKP and MHP have agreed on. On the opposition side, this happens in the secular CHP, the nationalist IYI party and the conservative Saadet party.
The prokurdische HDP, which is called by Erdogan always in the same breath with the PKK, not to occurs in all the provinces with their own candidates. Erdogan’s Tweet seems to be already paying off. AKP supporters are now trying to discredit the Opposition and under the HDP and the CHP a secret Alliance.
Terrorism accusations and the result of The former HDP Co-Chairman Selahattin Demirtas is in prison for “terrorist support” in prison
“No guarantee of impunity for voters of the Opposition!“
At his inauguration, Erdogan vowed, non-partisan and the President of all the people in the country. But this new Narrative is appropriate, according to experts, only to polarize the society. The reactions on Twitter seem to confirm that.
The Internet expert and academics Kerem Altıparmak asks the question, “if there was ever a guarantee that people will not be prosecuted, because they support an Alliance of humiliation, and thus tried to overthrow the government?”
The Chairman of the IYI party Meral Mrs. akşener writes on Twitter, that is an insult to the half of the country was not to be tolerated. In the Tradition of the Turkish state, such conduct of the President is unacceptable.
The CHP Deputy Aykut Erdoğdu pointed out that the state had sworn President at his inauguration with reference to the Turkish Constitution, on his honor, to be impartial and serve all the people of Turkey.
The oath of the staatsprä served on Bipartisanship
The former ACP Board member Osman Can see this in a different way. “If Erdogan swears on the Constitution, and he remains the President of the Turkish Republic, but he is first and foremost, the party leader of the AKP,” he says. To view of Can a Person who determines the policy of his party, and in this context, it is also quite partisan, may is Erdogan.
The lawyer Can not be criticized, however, that there is a connection between the Opposition and terrorist organisations in the Statements of Erdoğan is in line with the Constitution. He explained that a politician who has the Power to switch and to manage, but a slightly more cautious language should be used: “to use A moderate tone, increased equality of opportunity and opens the perspective of a fair race.”
The benefit for the Opposition
The head of the opinion research Institute Avrasya, Kemal Özkiraz, in an Interview with DW that the comments of Erdogan would also be rejected at the ACP-trailers. “Since Erdoğan assumed the arguments against the Kurdish HDP, he tries with secular polemic, to put the party in a hostile corner.”
Erdogan may not be the purpose of his Statements, that the people elect the Opposition. But instead, the President could draw the wrath of his own electorate, so Özkiraz. It is also possible that the as yet undecided voters in the 31. March your cross in the case of the opposition candidates. This would then in some circumstances, it could be in some metropolises, in the case of a head-to-head race in favor of the Opposition, pollsters Özkiraz.