Erdogan slept in an interview through the channels and it went viral

However, during the interview, Mr Turkish presidentIt seemed that he was very sleepy, and as a result, he could not keep his eyes open, even when reporters asked him a question about Kurdistan workers’ party.

When the crew realized that mr Ok Erdogan he had … fall asleep They took the shot from it and only showed one of the two reporters looking at her co-worker puzzled.

The incident triggered new scenarios for her Health status From the Turkish president and in fact shortly after he passed out during another live TV interview.

What do the latest opinion polls show in Türkiye?

In the second round of the match, S.J Recep Tayyip Erdogan He is nearly five points (49.5%), or 2.5 million votes, ahead of his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu (44.5%) is a candidate for a heterogeneous six-party coalition from a broad spectrum, from the nationalist right to the center-left.

Recent opinion polls – which were conducted by institutes with a significant decline before the first round – confirm Tayyip Erdogan’s lead, with a five-point lead ahead of him.

Despite this calculation, favored a priori by the ruler of the political game in Turkey in the past 20 years, it is still there Unknown variable: These are 8.3 million votes from citizens who did not express themselves in the first round, although participation reached 87%.

Already in the Turkish diaspora, whose members had until Tuesday night to vote, turnout was higher (1.9 million versus 1.69 million) than in the first round.

Apart from those who chose to abstain, both camps dealt after May 14 with the ultra-nationalists.

Third out of the first round, f Sinan Ogan (5% of the vote), a former MHP official, has sided with Mr. Erdogan.

effort to catch her voice far right It completely changed the texture of the campaign.

Kilicdaroglu “The Disappeared”

Shocked by an unexpected defeat in the first round, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, disappeared from television screens the day after the election only to reappear on the fourth, having reinvented himself as a belligerent candidate.

Smiles and thumbs-up at his campaign rallies have been replaced by fists and promises to return Syrian refugees to their homeland “the day after victory.” A threat he repeated a few days later, insisting that Turkey would not turn into a “migrant warehouse”.

Then he softened his stances towards the Syrians somewhat and called on Europe to keep what it promised. “We will fix the situation as you can see,” he told the youth.

Turkey, with at least 3.4 million Syrian refugees (according to official data), not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Afghans, Iranians and Iraqis on its soil, is the host country for most refugees in the world at the moment.

On the other hand, President Erdogan, 69, who became more energized after the result of the first round, delivered a speech back-to-back – three days last week – denouncing his opponents as “terrorists”, whom he accuses of how they cooperate with HDP and with “LGBTQI”, who threaten as they repeat family core values. He said sarcastically in one of his speeches: “Yesterday they still loved the terrorists.”

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“I’ve been covering election campaigns for decades, and I’ve never seen so many ‘fake news’, such offensive and homophobic statements,” sums up Can Dodar, former editor-in-chief of the centre-left Cumhuriyet newspaper. An exile in Berlin, who says he is sad that the opposition has not acted “the way it should”, nor has it “advocated a modicum of respect”.

Menderes Canar, a political science professor at Basket University (Ankara), criticized the opposition, which seemed “unable to present its vision for Turkey’s future” and expected “only the failures of the government and the president.”

But he added, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse and quoted by APE-MPE, “Even if the voters do not agree with some coalition parties, they cannot vote.”

HDP would probably agree. Despite the repeated attacks it has received, and despite Kilicdaroglu’s belated alliance with a small xenophobic ultranationalist faction, the party again on Thursday called on its supporters to vote for the opposition candidate.

Via Twitter yesterday, Selahattin Demirtas, a member of the HDP, who has been detained since 2016, repeated the plea from his cell yesterday: “No third round in this story! Let’s elect Mr. Kilicdaroglu as president, so that Turkey can breathe. Go to the polls and vote.” .

The SMS Kilicdaroglu sent before the elections was blocked

last night mr. Kilicdaroglu He accused the authorities of preventing him from sending text messages to inform reporters that he would participate in a television special.

According to him, this obstruction was done “by the Information and Communication Technology (BTS) Supervisory Authority, on the orders of Erdogan.” He added that the president’s men did it “because they are afraid”.

The non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Without Borders) criticizes the imbalance in the appearance of the candidates – the head of state monopolizes television screens.

For Erol Entroglu, RSF’s Turkey representative, the “created media system” is itself a means of rigging elections, as it “deprives” Turkish citizens of democratic dialogue.