According to the result, I will find a return ticket to Turkey or I will find a tombstone. Berlin‘, the journalist wrote in ‘Der Spiegel’ this week Can Dundarsent into exile Germany He was sentenced to 27 years in prison in his country for his crime. terrorism anyone espionage. He explains in a column dedicated to Recep Tayyip Ergogan’s stern face on the cover of his weekly magazine, that this statement is not his own, that he was “adopted” from another exiled Turk. The publication recalls that for the first time in 20 years, opinion polls did not rate the Turkish president as “invincible”. To the alliance of six parties, including the pro-Kurdish HDP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu As the sole candidate, some polls see him as an option to beat Erdogan, albeit with a minimal advantage.
One and a half million citizens Germany The fact that Turkey will be able to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday, May 14 may be an important factor. They make up about half of the German-Turks living in the country, including those born in Germany, and correspond to those who retain Turkish citizenship and the right to vote. That is, those who maintain ties with their country of origin. is he Largest constituency outside Türkiye. And until now his vote was clearly ‘Erdoganist’. In 2018, with a turnout of 46%, the leader and leader of the Islamist AKP party won 65% of Germany’s foreign vote. He is 10 points above his country’s total, which gave him a first-round victory – 53% with a national turnout of 86% among his 64.1 million voting citizens.
For 1.5 million potential voters in Germany, polls were opened in nearly twenty German cities on April 27 and closed on Tuesday, five days before the election day in Turkey. The Berlin Consulate General was the stage these days. long queues of voters Leaving mountains of garbage behind to upset the neighborhood in the far west neighborhood of the capital city it is in. Or at least that’s how the sensational ‘Bild’ newspaper reported it. For this environment, the election brought “chaos” to this enclave, far from the multi-ethnic neighborhoods of Kreuzberg, Neukölln or Wedding, where around 200,000 citizens of Turkish origin are concentrated and more than half are concentrated in the German capital. The population is of foreign origin.
In Erdogan’s absence
In the 2014 elections, the Berlin Olympiastadion, now on the outskirts of the capital and further away from the immigrant neighborhoods, was activated for Turkish foreign votes. This time, the ballot boxes were brought closer to the citizens. Aside from the presence of Erdoğan, who filled the German pavilions with speeches and insults against then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in the previous elections, there was no major campaign activity. However, the Turkey campaign was heavily featured in the media, not only in the aforementioned media, but also in political debates.
Presumably the name of the exiled Dündar says little or nothing to many of these German-Turkish voters. Der Spiegel’s cover of “Anti-Erdogan” should not have caught their attention either. It’s a group all too accustomed to dedicating to not-so-friendly headlines, covers, or news, whether it’s the serious media or the yellow press, especially when it comes to Turkey’s politics. Erdogan is a figure who created denial Considered a key among the German political class, but also in global geopolitics, NATO. I’m not even talking about your role stop the arrival of refugees During the migration crisis in 2015, with Türkiye European Union (EU) He was then promoted by Merkel.
According to the resolution approved by the Greens leadership, “With the parliamentary and Presidential elections, Erdogan’s option to leave his years of authoritarian leadership behind and return to the path of democracy opens.” So, the second partner in the trio of chancellors Olaf Schölz Between social democrats, environmentalists and liberals. It is the party of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Annalena BaerbockIt cannot openly publish election “recommendations” that are outside the scope of its party.
in favor of the opposition
He will not have a religious brother and a head of economy. Robert Habeck, with the rank of vice-chancellor after Scholz. However, he expresses without hesitation that he is in favor of the victory of the opposition and the coming to power of the Minister of Agriculture. Cem Ozdemir, ex-president of the Greens and an example of successful integration into German society. He marked a milestone by becoming the first Turkish-origin MP in the Bundestag (federal Parliament) in 1994 – he was born in Germany, where his parents and millions of other Turkish immigrants came decades ago. And he faced threats or hostilities from Erdogan’s circle, who forced his family to live in police custody in the heart of the most “Turkish” Kreuzberg. Özdemir is a demanded view in the German media, including the ZDF state television these days, and he makes it clear that the game will go to the opposition here. But at the same time, like many second- and third-generation German-Turks, he does not have a Turkish passport or the right to vote.
Berlin-based boxer and blogger Ünsal M. Arık wrote on his 169 thousand dollar account, “I went to vote today. Thank you to everyone who greeted me with love. God damn those who insulted my mother to provoke me.” Followers on your Twitter account. Arık is the author of an autobiographical book in which he describes his struggle against the Turkish stigma and at the same time for human rights. “I hope the fist of democracy will end this era,” he said in a picture message with an animated clip calling for a vote for Kılıçdaroğlu.