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title: "Turkey’s Opposition Candidate Will Steer Turkey Back Into  Western Clutches"
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**The word clutches means to grasp and hold, tightly, strongly and quickly**. **The Opposition is very clearly stating this is their plan. They will move Turkey away from some independence and back into near servitude to US/NATO interests**.

**Western media is still suggesting the opposition has the lead in polls, but, the weasel wording has me questioning the veracity of the claim.**

##### [**WSJ**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkeys-top-election-challenger-pledges-closer-ties-to-nato-and-eu-bee59738)

> ISTANBUL—Turkey’s top opposition candidate for president, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, resting in a hotel suite after addressing throngs of screaming supporters, said **he would steer Turkey closer to NATO and the West if he wins Sunday’s election.**

> **Mr. Kilicdaroglu says he would strengthen Turkey’s role as linchpin of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after Mr. Erdogan sought to build a closer relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.** He also aims to revive Turkey’s bid to join the European Union.

**Of course they are appealing to the easily manipulated young voter**

> **There are 5.3 million young people who will go to the ballot box for the first time and cast their votes and they want freedom and democracy,”** Mr. Kilicdaroglu said Saturday in an interview, an hour after concluding a rally at dusk before a huge crowd of supporters on Istanbul’s Asian bank
> 
> Mr. Kilicdaroglu said that he would maintain Turkish investments in Russia **but would comply with Western decisions with regard to sanctioning Russia, leaving Moscow more isolated than before.**
> 
> “Turkey is a member of the Western alliance and NATO and Putin also knows this well,” he said. **“Turkey must comply with decisions taken by NATO.**
> 
> Mr. Kilicdaroglu, the gray-haired 74-year-old leader of Turkey’s largest opposition party, **holds *at least a slight lead*** over Mr. Erdogan in most recent polls, though often short of the 50% threshold he would need for a first-round victory on Sunday, making a runoff against Mr. Erdogan likely.

***At least a slight lead?* What does that mean?  It means there is no lead of any substantive nature or any lead what so ever, but, we’ll suggest there is one to the western audience.**

**Acknowledged in this next sentence**:

> **“Still, Mr. Kilicdaroglu faces a stiff challenge in converting discontent into electoral victory.”**

**So the opposition is facing a stiff challenge to convert discontent into electoral victory- I can’t imagine the opposition stating they will deliver Turkey back to US hands is a winning statement, IN TURKEY. However, he made that statement in an interview for the Wall Street Journal- Very clearly that message is aimed to a western audience.**