Turkish Interior Minister rebuked West for putting pressure on Ankara on the eve of presidential elections
The presidential and parliamentary elections to be held in Türkiye on May 14th will go down in the history of the country and change it, and this caused the growing pressure on Ankara from the US and Europe – as noted by Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu, TASS reports
The words of the official are quoted by TV100, “Türkiye is changing its history. With the elections on May 14th, it will completely change. This is not the election of [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, but the choice of future generations of Turkey, its complete independence, so the United States and Europe are putting pressure on it.”
According to Soylu, ‘America is losing credibility, and the whole world hates it. Europe as such does not exist, it is just a part of America's convoy, without any special features’.
“European leaders are constantly being discredited, the population of the continent is aging, they are experiencing and will continue to experience difficulties in economic development. Europe has become a pawn of America in Africa, all African countries hate the states that exploit them,” the head of the Turkish law enforcement agency stressed.
With elections in Türkiye approaching, the West is increasingly accused of interfering in the election campaign. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier that he would no longer receive United States Ambassador to Ankara Jeff Lane Flake after his meeting with opposition presidential candidate, Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
Presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled for May 14th. Four candidates will fight for the post of head of state, but the main struggle, as experts predict, will unfold between Erdogan and the leader of the CHP Kilicdaroglu, who was nominated by the opposition as a single candidate. Political scientists do not rule out the possibility of holding elections in two rounds.
