Just couple of days before presidential elections, words of politicians, who have become already aggressive, became discriminative as well. As use of words by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, candidate of AKP, became shabby because of coming elections, his rivals start to adopt similar manner.
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Republican People Party (CHP), used the word “evildoers of the nation” on Tuesday, while he was answering journalists' questions.
While Kılıçdaroğlu was mentioning about presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he asserted: “Erdoğan is not a candidate for people, he must be probably a candidate for evildoers.” He continued:
“Why does Erdoğan want this support? He has Dolars, Euros, Liras that he couldn't dissolve. He has business men who are evildoers. He set out with them. It is better to say that he is not a candidate for people but he must be a candidate for evildoers.”
Erdoğan:You are Alevi, he is Zaza
As presidential elections come closer, the words of PM Erdoğan is getting more discriminative and offensive. On 2nd June, in a public meeting in İzmir, he had said “Kılıçdaroğlu, you can be Alevi(...) And I am Sunni.” For Demirtaş he said: “He is Zaza, but he decieves my Kurdish brothers.” In a TV program he attended last evening (5 August) he said: “Some called me a Georgian. Others called me even, excuse me, an Armenian in a shameful way. I am a Turk.”
In meetings, Erdoğan didn't say name his rival Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu but permanently alluded to “mon cher”. In the last week before elections start he began to call him as a deviationist.
Arınç:They can't help climbing poles when they see one
Deputy PM Bülent Arınç had made such a sentence “Women will not laugh in public” and defended himself with his words: “There are women having vacation without husband and they can't help climbing poles when they see one.” Then he stated that his critics are those who like showing off. (ÇT/MUY/BM)
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