ANCHOR. earthquake victims and Syrians refugees are at the center of controversy Tayyip Erdogan And Kemal Kilicdaroglu before the second round President elections V Türkiye. An opponent of the Turkish president has made a nationalist attack in recent days, promising immediate deportation Puller refugees, in an attempt to attract the votes of a third candidate, Sinan Ogan, who received 5% and is now a regulator. At the same time, after the condition set by Ogan that he would support anyone who did not give in to the demands of the Kurds, Kılıçdaroğlu ruled out any peace talks with the Kurdish separatists. “Erdogan! You have not defended either the borders or the honor of the country. You brought over 10 million refugees,” the opposition leader said, speaking at the headquarters of the Republican People’s Party. “You have turned our citizens into refugees. I announce that as soon as I come to power, I will return all the refugees. Ideal”.

“The opposition is now attacking the citizens who voted for the ruling coalition. We are seeing attacks that are incompatible with the values ​​of humanity,” Erdogan complained.

He even mentioned that the opposition was threatening earthquake victims who stood up for him that they would stop aid to the region and throw them out of their hotels where they were staying. “Not to mention the nefarious social media campaigns that upset earthquake victims. Regardless of which party they vote for, all 85 million citizens are saddened by this painlessness. No one should worry or despair because of this evil madness. Our primary duty is not to break our common national consciousness and humanity,” Erdogan promised.

The National Assembly will have 16 parties represented and more women than ever before.

Although a decision on presidential elections will be made at the end of the month, voters have already decided on the composition of the new national assembly. Thanks to the system of political unions introduced in 2018, the body will have 16 party representation and more women than ever before. The pro-government alliance has a comfortable majority of 323 in the 600-member National Assembly, while Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP has 263 seats. For its part, the CHP has 130 deputies, while its far-right ally Meral Axener, the Good Party, has 44.

In total, 121 deputies will sit on the benches, which is significantly more compared to the 100 deputies who were in the previous National Assembly. 54 of them are members of the ruling coalition. However, the average age of deputies remains high, with only five of them under 30, and the oldest of them is Mehmet Bahçeli, 75, who is chairman of the body until a new president is elected.

The failure of the polls to predict the outcome of the first round continues to cast a heavy shadow over the political debate. When asked about this, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu called the “mafia”. “Turkey needs to get rid of these people,” he commented, calling the polling companies agents of foreign powers who are “trying to fool and mislead” citizens.

Three arrests

Three people were arrested yesterday in connection with a fake sex tape against Muharrem Ince, the fourth presidential candidate who was forced to withdraw from the race just 24 hours before the contest. As a result of the prosecutor’s investigation, 17 suspects were prosecuted on charges of extortion, threats, forgery of documents, illegal storage of personal data and violation of privacy. The three arrested are a Smyrna municipal employee, a merchant from the same city, and a businessman. Inch complains about the smear campaign against him, including a sex tape he claims was fake. He pointed to exiled Imam Fethullah Gülen and his followers, who are suspected of being behind the 2016 coup attempt, as the mastermind behind the campaign against him.

Attack on the USA

The statement of the “Ministry of Foreign Affairs” of the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” (TRNC) regarding the anchoring of the American destroyer USS Arleigh Burke in Limassol was accepted yesterday by Ankara, which attacked the United States and Washington’s refusal of neutrality. “As we have repeatedly stressed together with TRDBC, the steps taken in the US region, which upset the balance to the detriment of the Turkish Cypriot side, damage the long-standing neutral position of this country with respect to the island and are an obstacle to a fair, sustainable and long-term settlement of the Cyprus issue. We urge the US to reconsider this policy. We want to emphasize once again that Turkey, as a guarantor country in Cyprus, will continue to resolutely protect the legitimate rights and interests of Turkish Cypriots under any circumstances and conditions,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in an angry statement. The US Embassy in Cyprus announced this via Twitter on Tuesday: “Welcome to Cyprus, Arleigh Burke. The close maritime cooperation between Cyprus and the US reinforces our shared commitment to maintaining stability and security in the region.”