Friday, May 12, 2023

Muharrem Ince: Turkish presidential candidate dramatically pulls out before election on Sunday

Only three candidates left! I suppose this is good news! Will the era of Erdogan come to an end?

The circumstances of withdrawal are concerning:
""I'm withdrawing my candidacy," he told reporters.
He cited fake sex pictures as one of his reasons for pulling out.
He complained that for 45 days he had been slandered and suffered character assassination, and Turkish authorities had failed to protect his reputation.
"Fake invoices, fake videos, pictures… they took a video from an Israeli porn website and added my face there," he said. ..."

Muharrem Ince: Turkish candidate dramatically pulls out before election - BBC News Three days before Turkey's tightest presidential vote in years, one of the four candidates, Muharrem Ince, has pulled out of the race.



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