Erdogan abstained from public appearances on Friday, the third day his campaign schedule has been on hold since falling abruptly ill on live television on Tuesday.
,” lasting about half an hour, and a follow-up to the original procedure. Erdogan denied having colon cancer at the time and has maintained since that he never suffered from that ailment.emails allegedly sourced from U.S. intelligence that described Erdogan as suffering from colon cancer and detailing that the then-prime minister’s surgery was intended to extract a significant part of his colon. The Wikileaks document claimed Erdogan had only two years to live, which Erdogan vehemently denied.
“In tandem with this footage are rumors about the president’s health—including stories alleging he has been dealing with increasing forgetfulness, bouts of breathing problems, confusion, vomiting, and the implantation of an internal defibrillator,” the magazine reported in 2021. “According to these same accounts, the president has increased the number of doctors around him, reduced encounters with the press, and is being pumped up with painkillers before public events.
As it did this week, the Erdogan administration dismissed all such rumors at the time, and the president continued to show up to work without incident for another two years.
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