The tense atmosphere with the July 15 coup is linked by his post Recep Tayyip Erdogana few 24 hours before the opening of the polls in Turkeyas reported by the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis.

The climate in the neighboring country, ahead of Sunday’s elections, is particularly tense, as several incidents have been recorded, including shootings.

The Turkish president, who according to the polls is behind him in terms of percentages Kemal Kilicdaroglulinked his post on Twitter to Sunday’s election with the 2016 coupimplying that some forces are preparing something similar.

“Whatever attacks we face, we will not cast a shadow on the will of our nation and our democracy.

When necessary, as on the night of July 15, we claim our independence and our future at the cost of our lives.

Because we exist for this nation, of which we are honored to be members and servants.”

Erdogan sent a message to Mitsotakis through Kostidis

On Thursday, the Turkish president spoke exclusively to Manolis Kostidis, expressing the desire to start a new era in Greece’s relations with Turkey, while also sending a message to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The president of Turkey, after his last pre-election rally in Ankara, specifically emphasized: “With Greece, we can put aside hostilities and rivalries, this has greatly damaged both countries and must not continue. I wish that the elections of both Greece and Turkey will be the beginning of a new era. We from Turkey send our cordial friendly greetings to Greece”.

When asked by Manolis Kostidis if he has any message or wish to send to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he replied: “Mitsotakis must preserve these impressions and keep his words.”

The president of Turkey believes that he will win the elections and characteristically stated to “K” that “the gatherings in the squares show this, the people show this desire, you see it too”.

The background of the Kostides-Erdogan meeting

His message Recep Tayyip Erdogan for Greece and Kyriakos Mitsotakiswhich is published today Friday at Daily, it was a pursuit of the Turkish president himself who called him Manoli Kostidi 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.