“Observers in Ankara are wary of whether Tayyip Erdogan actually intends to leave”
A few days ago President Tayyip Erdogan announced his retirement from politics typically mentioning that the March elections will be his last.
The Turkish president’s statement “is not surprising as under the Constitution, Erdogan cannot run for another term”, observes the German Journalism Network (RND). “Nevertheless observers in Ankara are wary on whether the president of Turkey he really intends to leave.”
Erdogan “rules in an authoritarian manner, and he is not going to leave it to the discretion of his party to choose his successor, but he will choose him himself”. As the German media also points out, there are repeated accusations of financial violations by President Erdoğan – such as those recently reported by Ali Gesilda. “Erdogan must be afraid that when he loses the criminal immunity he has as president, these charges will be investigated. That is why it is so important to him who will succeed him”.
Among others, one of Erdogan’s sons-in-law, Selcuk Bayraktar, is said to be a possible successor.chairman of the defense industry company Baykar, a man who “personifies for many the rise of Turkey in a high tech nation. Bayraktar is popular, counting three million followers in X”, while he also has the necessary Islamic background, since “his father was a confidant of the Islamist leader and mentor of Erdogan, Necmetin Erbakan”. Besides, Bayraktar doesn’t seem to rule out getting involved in Turkish politics.
“Until 2028, however, a lot can happen. Perhaps Erdogan will find out by then that his country she still needs him. And if he revises, or simply ignores the Constitution, could run for another term”it concludes RND.
Source :Skai
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