By Antonis Anzoletou

Erdogan is ‘too tough to die’. This is the opinion of experienced analysts and academics in Turkey who are not in a hurry to draw conclusions from the difference of ten or more points that the opinion polls show that the united opposition is leading this period. Simply put, it won’t be that easy for Kemal Kilicdaroglu to oblige him Tayyip Erdogan to part with the palace he has built in Ankara. What is the current president’s weakness? The presence of 20 years in power and the decay it causes. Either as prime minister or as president of the country. On the contrary, the “weapons” he has for claiming the presidency, for the last time, as he claims, are enough. The control of the state apparatus is one of the assets of the current president. In the first days of the earthquake, he was accused of laxity in relation to the response of the rescue teams, but now in Turkey there is an image of rebuilding the affected areas and dealing with the humanitarian crisis. From Antioch he has promised the delivery of 319,000 houses next year, which if realized will be a very big achievement.

Margins are narrowing and the 14th of May catching up. Mr. Dimitris Triantafyllou, Associate Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, explained while speaking to “SKAI 100.3” that an organized plan to check buildings to deal with earthquakes will start immediately in Istanbul. “It shows an organization and that it has the administrative qualities as opposed to the opposition.” Mr. Triandafillou added that what Tayyip Erdogan will highlight is that “history in Turkey shows, as we often discuss in Greece, that coalition governments do not work. And in the 1950s and 1960s, there were coalition governments in Turkey that were very weak.”

The picture of what the pro-Kurdish party will do is not clear. In other words, to what extent will he support the opposition without fielding his own candidate for the presidency. At the same time, Erdogan continues to build his international profile. He appears more diplomatic with the West and the European Union, plans high-level meetings with the Russia, Syria, Iran and prepares the helicopter carrier “Anadolu” to go out into the open sea of ​​the Mediterranean showing the naval power of his country. Despite the financial crisis, the presentation of the first Turkish car, as well as announcements about the exploitation of natural gas from the Black Sea, are in the works.

Analysts in Turkey point out that at the same time the Kemal Kilicdaroglu since 2010, who is the leader of the Republican party and the official opposition, he does not have a rich work to show and some brilliant course. What is also difficult for Mr. Kilicdaroglu is to avoid introversion within the coalition that has been created. It is a fact that only his own party and that of Meral Aksener will manage to pass the 7% threshold in order to enter the Parliament. The rest of the formations are very difficult to achieve this percentage, therefore there must be some kind of agreement with the Republican People’s Party, so that they get some seats, a process that is not so simple. Another question concerning the coalition of the “six” is what will happen if the Court of Appeal upholds his conviction Ekrem Imamoglou before the elections. He will automatically not have the right to remain in the position of the Mayor of Istanbul spoiling the climate in the ranks of the opposition in a very critical period.

The game is already tough and the opposition is preparing its responses. Wanting to show that he wishes to bring new morals to the Turkish political scene and by extension to society, speaking to “Haber Turk”, the candidate of the six-party alliance for the presidency of the country has announced that in the event of his victory, he will not settle in the ultra-luxurious “Ak Saray” “, but in the Cankaya presidential palace, where all the country’s presidents lived until the construction of the palace in Ankara in 2014.