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calls on the YSK to annul the election on the allegations that the winner was in cooperation with the PKK and FETO,” Bahceli stated, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Bahceli has basically been pushing Erdogan, and the country, towards the cliff-edge since he took control of matters on June 7, 2015. As far back as 2001, he finished the political careers of his coalition partners by calling for snap polls at the most inopportune time.
On April 21, when Imamoglu was holding a gathering of Istanbullers to celebrate his win, Erdogan’s trashy newspapers put out headlines saying mayor Imamoglu was responsible for the PKK attack.
“Are you happy Ekrem?”. Vile tabloid Gunes went with “Are You Happy Ekrem?” addressing Imamoglu with a story about the four soldiers who’d perished the previous day. The story included Imamoglu’s recent positive comments on Selahattin Demirtas, the imprisoned former co-chair of the HDP who last year challenged Erdogan for the presidency from his cell.
Gunes is one of the truly scummy papers in Erdogan’s ‘media pool’. It is currently owned by Erdogan’s bouncer, a man who served time in jail with the strongman when he was sentenced to a few months in imprisonment in 1999 during the Post-modern Military Coup period.
On April 21, CHP leader Kilicdaroglu attended the funeral of Yener Kirikci, one of the soldiers who lost their lives, in Akkuzulu village, Ankara Province.
Kilicdaroglu has been Turkey’s main opposition leader since 2010. Thousands of people have died due to Erdogan’s policies and the Republic has been almost entirely dismantled during his time at the top. Kilicdaroglu attends the funerals of martyrs, but he’s never done anything much to bring an end to deaths.
Lynching attempt. During the funeral, a group of people started chanting “PKK out” and Kilicdaroglu narrowly escaped an apparent lynching attempt by taking refuge in a house. For one and a half hours, attacks made by the
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