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title: "Istanbul and Ankara Mayors Claim Kılıçdaroğlu ahead of Erdoğan"
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**I find this claim very strange. It’s strange that Mayors would claim knowledge of voting leaning one way or another. They are, after all, only Mayors of these two cities.**

 **However, from the many years I’ve written about Turkey, my understanding, particularly regarding Istanbul, there are lots of western influences/ers present.**

**Just my opinion, their statements are suggestive of some sort of interference/involvement from outside influences- Can’t prove it. But I’m suspicious.**

**I[‘ll highlight some interesting language](https://bianet.org/english/diger/278767-third-announcement-from-mayors-of-istanbul-and-ankara-kilicdaroglu-at-49-erdogan-at-45)**

**And mention that these two mayors got a lot of media coverage yesterday**!

![](https://i0.wp.com/pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-4.png?resize=580%2C375&ssl=1)> İstanbul and Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayors who **reacted strongly to the first results announced by the Anadolu Agency and call it a “manipulation” were in front of the cameras this evening for the third time.**

**Kicking off the narrative?**

> They pointed out that 10 million votes have not yet been counted which corresponds to 20 percent of the total votes.**The two mayors said, “Please continue to incline your ears to us.**

**Keep listening to our narrative?**

> When the ratio of ballot boxes counted exceeds 85%, the Erdoğan votes will start to drop sharply. Please do not allow them to demoralize you.  **Do not believe them when they say that they have won the elections.**

**Current data? Turkey has an agency that oversees elections- Should the mayors have access to the data? Did they have access to the data?**

> “We see that the opposition has received the highest vote ever.**`""With the current data, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">our president has 49 percent of the votes and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 45 percent."</span>`** “We observe that there are gatherings in some squares, you are deceiving our nation. it is a pity. “The Turkey volunteers should continue their duty.”In a statement less than an hour later, the mayors said Kılıçdaroğlu’s voting rate was at 47 percent and Erdoğan’S was at 45 percent, with two thirds of the votes counted. (VC/PE/VK)

**” Our president” The president of Turkey is in fact Erdogan. Yet they are talking about the US backed opposition leader being their president.** **Weird.**