Addressing hundreds of thousands of supporters in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan sarcastically said Mr Kilicdaroglu could drink as much as he wanted as Turks would not hand the country over to a “drunkard”.
A week before Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called opposition leader and main rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu a “drunk” at his biggest campaign rally yet ahead of the May 14 showdown.
Addressing hundreds of thousands of supporters in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan sarcastically said Mr Kilicdaroglu could drink as much as he wanted as Turks would not hand the country over to a “drunkard”.
The president of Turkey also accused his main opponent of collaborating with “terrorists”.
Mr Erdogan, who recently had to stop campaigning for health reasons, has a habit of using inflammatory rhetoric against opposition politicians and minorities, including the LGBTI+ community.
The president claimed that the participants in the rally were 1.7 million, something impossible to verify.
Mr Kilicdaroglu also appeared in front of a large crowd in Istanbul last Saturday. An estimate of the number of participants was not released.
Source :Skai
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