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Unlike white people, the Turks don’t like all these immigrants.
Erdogan is having a hard time convincing the population that they are Turkey’s greatest strength.
The main challenger to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is campaigning on a pledge to expel refugees ahead of tightly contested elections in May in which he is now the frontrunner.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the 74-year-old leader of the centre-left Republican People’s Party (CHP), visited the Syrian border in the earthquake struck province of Hatay this week vowing that if elected, he would send home refugees within two years.
“My presidency has two important goals: The first is to send the Syrians back to their homeland. The second is to send those who came illegally via Iran back to Iran,” he said on Tuesday.
“We have to give back our streets and neighbourhoods to their owners. However, we have to do this sensitively, so as not to stigmatise our nation with racism. We are working on it,” he added.
As campaigning heats up ahead of the May 14 elections, Mr Kilicdaroglu – known among his supporters as “Kemal Gandhi” – has begun making a play for votes from the nationalist base that has long supported Mr Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party.
Resentment over the issue of migration has been building for years. Opinion polls regularly identify immigration as among the most urgent problems facing the nation.
But Mr Erdogan – who has allowed millions of Syrian refugees to come to Turkey – has struggled to quell the anger.
His government has alternated between defending immigrants and passing new regulations to limit their visibility.
Last year, he vowed to send a million Syrians home, a policy seen as impractical and illegal and that has done little to quiet calls from his critics for more action. So far, approximately 550,000 refugees have been returned to regions deemed safe, he said in January.
Now, with two months ahead of the presidential showdown, polling shows Mr Kilicdaroglu is leading Mr Erdogan by 56 per cent to 44 per cent.
With Turkey facing a mounting economic crisis of runaway inflation, rising debt and a collapsing currency – all now exacerbated by a multibillion dollar reconstruction bill following last month’s devastating earthquake – the Turkish leader faces a tough battle to remain in charge of the country he has led for 20 years.
Kemal Kiricdaloglu
But with a fractured opposition, independent media quashed, and the judiciary and organs of state tightly under President Erdogan’s control, the election’s outcome is far from determined.
Mr Kilicdaroglu is an economist and former bureaucrat who crusaded against corruption, cultivating a persona of calmness and reliability – earning him favourable comparisons to Mahatma Gandhi from his supporters. He is an Alevi, a religious minority that has faced systematic discrimination in the past.
I like Erdogan, but he really made a bad call on this.
No economy can support being flooded with poor people.
He now has the ability to send them all back. There are no more wars in the region, and with Russia and China on the list, it is unlikely the US will get around to starting any new wars in Moslem territories any time soon.
This doesn’t look like a bad place
