Istanbul and Ankara Mayors Claim Kılıçdaroğlu ahead of Erdoğan

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

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

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, our president has 49 percent of the votes and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 45 percent." “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.