Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, an opponent of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said in his first reaction after the result that gave Turkey’s incumbent president the victory that he would continue his fight for democracy and asked his supporters to do the same. Kilicdaroglu spoke of “the most unfair election process in recent years,” reports Al Jazeera.

• “All state funds were mobilized for a political party and laid at the feet of one person,” the CIS leader said.

He added: “I would like to thank the leaders of the Alliance of Nations, their organizations, our voters and citizens who protected the ballot box and fought against this immoral and illegal pressure.”

• “As a man of this land, I have always fought for your rights and justice, so that no one oppresses you, so that you can live in abundance, and I will continue to do so,” Kilicdaroglu said.

The leader of the CHP noted that “despite all the pressures, the will of the people to change the authoritarian regime appeared.”

• “We will continue to be at the forefront of this struggle until true democracy comes to our country,” he added.

Partial results from Sunday’s presidential election in Turkey, reported by the official Anadolu Agency, show Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the clear winner. According to these results, after counting 99% of the ballots, Recep Tayyip Erdogan won 52.1% of the votes and Kemal Kilicdaroglu – 47.9%.

In the first round of the Turkish presidential election, which took place on May 14, Erdogan won 49.5% of the vote, and Kilicdaroglu – 44.9% of the vote.

Kilicdaroglu, head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), founded by Atatürk, leads an alliance of six parties with different ideologies united under one banner with one goal: to overthrow Recep Erdogan.

Kilicdaroglu, who led the CHP in 2010, has during that time presented himself as the exact opposite of Erdogan in both substance and style, urging his supporters to “get the job done” from the first round. But, as the counting of votes showed, Erdogan was the closest to getting a new mandate from the first round.

In the week since the first round of voting, the opposition candidate has increased his tone against refugees from Turkey in an attempt to attract the votes of ultra-nationalists unhappy with Erdogan’s migration policies.

Due to the civil war in Syria, Turkey has received the largest number of refugees in the world, according to UN estimates, at four million people. The refugees, welcomed by Erdogan as part of his policy of expanding influence in the region and establishing himself as a defender of Islam, have become the object of anger among many Turks in recent years due to the country’s economic decline.

With inflation and unemployment rising by 5% over the past decade, there have been complaints that refugees and migrants are taking jobs away from Turks and that some of them, who fled neighboring Syria with their valuables, can afford what they have to watch the Turks one by one. on them in shop windows.