Stop in Christchurch : Erdogan is a Video of the massacre in the election campaign

Facebook and other social media may have deleted the video of the assassin's from new Zealand but now the footage of the death appear to protect Brenton Tarrant in Turkish local election campaign. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had parts of Tarrant's recordings, now in pixel Form, for campaign events play. The 64-year-old head of state wants to motivate its voters and the Opposition in the vicinity of Islam-the enemies back. Rhetorical Erdogan is arming in the face of weak results of the survey, and evokes a confrontation between the Christian West and the Islamic world: He accused the West of a new "crusade" against Turkey. His political Alliance partner, Devlet Bahceli of the right-wing party MHP said, Turkey will drown", the crusaders in their own blood".

"The cross drown a knight in his own blood,"

Erdogan accuses the West already for a long time, Islamist-motivated terrorist attacks as a pretext for criticism of Islam altogether, to exploit, to dispense with attacks on Muslims, but in a similar blame game. After the death of 50 people in Tarrant's attack on mosques in Christchurch, new Zealand, no one can speak of a "Christian terrorist", defendant Erdogan at the weekend.

The Australian Tarrant had visited three years ago, the Turkey, and according to the media, to return the reports, in his Manifesto the conquest of Istanbul by the Christians announced; the then-Christian Constantinople was conquered in 1453 by the Muslim Ottomans. Tarrant had threatened Erdogan also personally reported the Pro-government Turkish news channel AHaber. Why Tarrant visited Turkey, and what contacts he made in the process, is currently being investigated by the Turkish police.

In the case of several election rallies, Erdogan at the weekend, excerpts from Tarrant's Tatvideo from Christchurch were large screens on shown. The images served to the President, among other things, to attack the Turkish leader of the opposition, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, of which he is accused, to have as Western politicians about Islamic terrorism expressed.

In the surveys characterized the voting losses for the ACP

In the polls before the local elections on October 31. March are loss of votes for Erdogan's ruling AKP party, the commencement of an Alliance with Bahcelis MHP. According to the surveys, the ACP must anticipate, among other things, with the loss of the citizens mostly the posts in the capital Ankara. An important reason for the weakness of the ACP, the bad economic situation: Turkey is in a recession, and unemployment has risen to its highest level in ten years. A defeat in the election would be a serious blow to the since 2002, the ruling AKP and its President.

For Erdogan, it is therefore particularly important to motivate the Islamic-conservative core of supporters of his AKP before the election. These efforts also include its rhetorical attacks on the West, and the allusions to the medieval Crusades, regarded in Turkey as an expression of an aggressive attitude of Western States. "We don't want a new battle between the cross and the Crescent," said Erdogan to the West directed. "But if necessary we are ready, if you want to." Bahceli pointed out that the Christchurch-assassin Tarrant have also threatened Turkey.

even before the terrorist attack of Christchurch Erdogan had intensified his rhetoric in the election campaign. Leading politicians of the pro-Kurdish party HDP he calls "terrorists". The participants of a women's demonstration in Istanbul, he accused islam-hostile behavior, because they would have whistled during the call to prayer from a nearby mosque. The voters should not support forces, "the respect our call to prayer and our Flag," he said last week.

opposition politicians are threatening Erdogan with imprisonment

Erdogan referred to the upcoming municipal elections as "fateful choice", in the case of the AKP and MHP an unholy Alliance of several opposition parties were faced with. The President accuses the left of national opposition party, the CHP and the conservative IYI Parti, with the HDP, and thus indirectly with the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK ally. The IYI-party-Boss Meral Aksener, he openly threatened a prison sentence. The former HDP-chief Selahattin Demirtas is already sitting for more than two years behind bars. Aksener could join soon, Erdogan said recently.