Erdogan, rival draw vast crowds ahead of May 14 vote

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ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main opponent staged massive rival rallies on Sunday (Apr 30), setting the stage for a bruising battle in the final two weeks of Türkiye's election campaign. The veteran Turkish leader filled a central Ankara square that can fit a few hundred thousand peopl

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main opponent staged massive rival rallies on Sunday , setting the stage for a bruising battle in the final two weeks of Türkiye's election campaign.

"On May 14, our nation, God willing, will eliminate them from the political scene," he said of secular leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and his six-party opposition alliance. "As you know I was sick recently, and from every house people were praying for me," Erdogan told the crowd.Kilicdaroglu, 74, and his multi-faceted alliance are posing Erdogan's toughest election challenge since the Turkish leader's Islamic-rooted party first swept to power in 2002.

He staged an equally massive rally along the embankment of the opposition-controlled Aegean city of Izmir, where Erdogan drew slightly smaller crowds on Saturday.

 

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