'We will turn foreign policy around 180 degrees'Īsked about foreign policy, Kilicdaroglu pledged pronounced changes if victorious. Issues include economic turbulence and sky-high inflation (72% year-on-year in 2022), the aftermath of a major earthquake in southeastern Turkey earlier this year, the high number of Syrian refugees fleeing civil war living in Turkey, and Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and Turkey's tricky position as a NATO member situated very close to Russia's borders. Turkey will choose between incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Sunday Image: OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Imagesĭomestic and international topics have both played a part on the campaign trail. And we will win and send Erdogan away," he said.Įarly voting for eligible Turkish citizens living abroad, with roughly 1.5 million of them residing in Germany, closed on Tuesday. "I told the people to go to the polling stations and vote and a lot of people will go there and vote in these elections. Kilicdaroglu told DW's Turkey correspondent Julia Hahn more than once that he was confident of victory during their discussion on his campaign bus on the sidelines of an event in the northern city of Bolu.īolu is one of the cities that Kilicdaroglu's CHP reclaimed from Erdogan's AKP in local elections in 2019, with the most important such gain surely being in Istanbul. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Confident of high turnout, and victory Kilicdaroglu: 'We will bring democracy to Turkey'
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