Turkey’s Kilicdaroglu faces the heat after election loss to Erdogan FMTNews FMTWorld
Republican People’s Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu faces questions about his leadership after losing to President Tayyip Erdogan.
“It was not a surprising result since the opposition did not change for 20 years facing the same government,” said Bugra Oztug, 24, who voted for Kilicdaroglu in Istanbul. “I feel sad and disappointed, but I am not hopeless.” Akif Hamzacebi, a former CHP deputy parliamentary group chair, said his party and Kilicdaroglu were “seriously unsuccessful” because of a poor strategy, and a comprehensive re-evaluation is needed. If “the necessary actions are not taken, the future will be worse than today,” he said on Twitter.Kilicdaroglu, 74, had long pressed to be the man to take on the 69-year-old Erdogan.
In the end, he barely managed to force a runoff on May 28. In the last two weeks, he struggled to motivate voters in the face of an overwhelmingly pro-government mainstream media and Erdogan’s strong base of support across rural Anatolia. “None of them seem to have increased their share of votes, neither for themselves nor for Kilicdaroglu,” she said.Analysts say Kilicdaroglu will now seek to keep this unwieldy alliance united, including the HDP’s support, to hold on to cities in March.
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