Turkey’s main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused Russia of interfering in the country’s ongoing presidential election campaign
. “Dear Russian friends, you are behind the montages, conspiracies, deep fake content and tapes that were exposed in this country yesterday,” he said in a tweet posted Thursday. “If you want the continuation of our friendship after May 15, get your hands off the Turkish state,” Kilicdaroglu said. Voters go to the polls Sunday in Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary election.
Turkey, a NATO member which has the alliance’s second-largest army, has strengthened its ties with Russia and in 2019 even bought weapons from it in defiance of the United States. While many NATO members and other Western nations sought to reduce their reliance on Russian energy after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Turkey instead extended its dependence on Russia.
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