His message Recep Tayyip Erdogan for Greece and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, published today Friday in Kathimerini, it was a pursuit of the Turkish president himself who called Manolis Kostidis to talk to him, revealed the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul.

“He was willing to talk and impressed us.. We went to three pre-election rallies yesterday, and at all three I was very close, I was in front with other colleagues. All the deputies gather, his song begins (“We love him very much”) and at some point I see him put his hand on his chest and salute to our side. A colleague says: ”she greets you”. I say, it’s impossible, he had 20,000 people behind me. I greeted him too, since my colleagues confirmed that he was greeting me. We greeted each other, and he gestured “back” to me. I mean when we finish “come back”. I understood there that possibly he wants to say something too” stressed Manolis Kostidis.

“I hadn’t asked to see him. Nothing. I had told his colleagues that I wanted to be near him at the pre-election rally to record the atmosphere in SKAI and the next day that I would go to Kilicdaroglu’s rally. I’m going backwards, initially the police didn’t allow me (…) we got to the site… I asked him, we have elections in Greece and Turkey, and that’s where the message for Greece and for Mitsotakis came out.”

“It was a very nice conversation, in a completely spontaneous atmosphere, I went back just to greet him. He and his colleagues are optimistic about the elections.” “We will win, the gatherings show this, the people show this desire, you see it too” he told the SKAI reporter. “The areas we went to are Erdogan’s castles, but his followers adore him. Person worship. Without Erdogan, the party does not exist. Only him. It’s all his. He ascends with his song and departs with his song” Manolis Kostidis commented.