The attack against the opposition leader shakes Turkey

Himself does not hesitate Kemal Kilicdaroglu who was behind the attack. He said on Monday to the newspaper Cumhuriyet:

" the Entire political and military elite was there, yet it took an hour and a half before we could be brought to safety, why no action was taken? Why was arrested, no?

the Attack has shaken Turkey, in particular, Kilicdaroglus party CHP, which celebrated its victory in the country's three largest cities, and now expect the victory, in Istanbul, will be void.

the bodyguards brought him to a shed that lynchmobben tried to set fire to soviet defense minister Hulusi Akar, took a microphone and turned to våldsmännen:

– My dear friends! You have now shown your dissatisfaction. Go home!

Turkish commentators take for granted that the attack is a direct consequence of the results of the election in Istanbul, where the ruling AKP lost to the CHP's Ekrem Imamoglu. He has shocked the regime by praising the imprisoned kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas.

Turkish liberals have rejoiced on social media over to a ”brotherly” coalition emerged victorious in Istanbul. Above all, it was megastadens kurdish inhabitants – on Demirtaş's call – brought Imamoglu to power.

there is no doubt that it was this that got him the attack:

" We have done that no one else succeeded, to create a coalition of different camps. Now we see that you prepare something, something that has nasty historical parallels.

the far-Right MHP leader Devlet Bahceli, president Tayyip Erdogan's ally and the one who brought the regime's actions during the crisis, still requires that the re-election in Istanbul. His reaction to lynchförsöket of partiledarkollegan was difficult to interpret:

– It is unacceptable. But Kilicdaroglu must think he was showing.

denied that the attack had been a ”provocation” – that is to say, state planned – but added with great emphasis that the CHP party was lierat with the kurdish terrorists of the PKK.

Turkietkännaren Halil Karaveli says to DN that the election loss in Istanbul has sown panic in the regime's point:

– Presidentsystemet was established to neutralize the kurds ' influence. But now the kurds have shown that they still can determine the choice. If they can give Imamoglu Istanbul so they can make him president!

extremely effective police force. A handful of people who start chanting political slogans in a square may immediately accompanied by security personnel. To a state funeral, bevistad of the national police and the secretary of defense, spontaneously and could degenerate into a lynching is absolutely out of the question.

The electoral authority YSK, the day after Istanbulvalet gave Imamoglu victory, said on Monday that it will make its final decision ”within a day”.

"We're teetering on the brink of a precipice," says one of the country's most famous author of DN.

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