Clashes erupted on Monday afternoon in Marseille, in southern France, between supporters and opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan around a polling station for Turkish citizens who can vote early in Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, leaving at least four injured man, France. the police announced.

Law enforcement agencies intervened twice to separate Turkish voters who were called to the polls two weeks before the two procedures to be held on May 14 in Turkey, the Bouches-de-Rhone police department said, confirming that the third program was being broadcast for the first time French radio and television in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.

The first incidents broke out around 2:30 pm around the polling station, in the southern suburbs of Marseille, near the Parc de Chanot (eighth arrondissement), four victims were taken to Timon’s hospital. The police used tear gas to separate the two opposing factions.

More incidents followed at the end of the day, despite police presence, and two arrests were made, police told AFP.

Erdogan, 69, is running for re-election in the May 14 presidential election, but will face united opposition for the first time in 20 years in office.

He faces three opponents, the most important of which is 74-year-old Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a candidate from an alliance of six opposition parties ranging from the nationalist right to the centre-left, dominated by the Republican People’s Party (CHP, a social democrat) of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal.

Sociological polls predict a controversial competition in which the two main camps claim they will win from the first round. If a second is required, it will take place on May 28.

Source: RES-IPE