ANKARA: Türkiye's President Tayyip Erdogan accused the opposition on Monday (May 8) of provoking disorder and siding with terrorists in a fiery speech days away from close and increasingly fractious elections. Erdogan appeared to suggest his opponents had incited confrontations a day earlier when crowds t
ANKARA: Türkiye's President Tayyip Erdogan accused the opposition on Monday of provoking disorder and siding with terrorists in a fiery speech days away from close and increasingly fractious elections.
Opinion polls suggest Erdogan faces the biggest electoral challenge of his career in presidential and parliamentary votes due on May 14. A day later, across the other side of Türkiye during a rally in the western town of Edirne, Erdogan accused the opposition of being"pro-LGBT" and"siding with terrorists".
"They are trying to defame our cities shamelessly by making a scene with their own provocations," Erdogan said, without making direct reference to the events in Erzurum.
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