In Turkey, leaders of the opposition IYI (Good) parties Meral Aksener and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu held a meeting at a hotel located 30 meters from the US Embassy in Ankara on March 7. , as reported by the Turkish newspaper Takvim. .
“The JW Marriott hotel in the Chukurambar district, where the meeting between Kilicdaroglu and Akshener took place, is located 30 meters from the US Embassy”, wrote the newspaper. Aksener was received by Kılıçdaroğlu and the mayors of Istanbul and Ankara, Ekrem Imamoğlu and Mansur Yavas, after which a private meeting of party leaders took place.
Recall, on March 6, Aksener decided to return to Turkey’s opposition alliance after leaving the union of the six Turkish opposition parties on March 3.
On March 3, the politician accused the leaders of the other five parties of conspiring against her and her party, explaining this by their decision to nominate Kılıçdaroğlu as the sole candidate of the opposition, despite the fact that, according to polls, Imamoğlu and Yavash have “greater support”.
Let’s add, on March 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he intends to sign a decree on March 10 scheduling general elections (parliamentary and presidential) for May 14. After the signing of the decree, the electoral process will officially begin.
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Source: Rossa Primavera
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