AFP went to the world: Erdogan's biggest castle! :Image Credit "Milliyet"

AFP went to the world Erdogan's biggest castle! 

The international news agency wrote about the city where voters wearing crescent-star necklaces went to the polls. While the British The Guardian said 'Erdogan is in pole position', a remarkable analysis signed by historian Olivier Bouquet was published in the French newspaper Le Monde.

AFP passed to the world.

Erdogan's biggest stronghold :

As the countdown to the second round of the presidential election continues, Turkey is again at the top of the world agenda. British newspaper The Guardian, ' Can the Turkish opposition fill the excitement gap before the second round ?' In his news titled, "Kilicdaroglu calculates the lack of faith of his supporters, while the revived Erdogan is in a 'pol position".

According to the newspaper, the opposition bloc led by former bureaucrat Kemal Kilicdaroglu forced Erdogan to the second round. However, Erdogan seems to be renewed after the results and is in pole position in the ballot boxes that are expected to be established on 28 May, succeeding in getting 49.5 percent of the votes compared to Kilicdaroglu's 44.9 percent in the first round.

On the other hand, the opposition wing faces the reckoning of the lack of enthusiasm among its supporters. Speaking to The Guardian, 24-year-old Ayten said, "The opposition needs to give their supporters confidence, but it doesn't work. People vote not because they trust themselves, but because they feel they have to."

The British newspaper The Times preferred the headline 'Erdogan wins the support of the third-ranked candidate in the second round', and argued that in the vote on 28 May, immigrants and Kurds would determine the outcome of the race.

The Greek newspaper Kathimerini chose the headline 'Erdogan received the approval of the third-ranked candidate before the second round'. The newspaper, which carried the second round decision of Sinan Ogan, who received 5.1 percent of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, described the nationalist politician as a "potential determinant" like many other international media.

AFP passed to the world: Erdogan's biggest stronghold

Kathimerini, who published another news titled 'Erdogan is once again angry with the West', commented that anti-Western and anti-American rhetoric is rising in Turkey days before the second round of elections.

LE MONDE: ERDOGAN DEFENDANT OF THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF KEMALISM :

The headline of the analysis article in the French newspaper Le Monde was 'Erdogan gained more ground through nationalism rather than Islamism'. Historian Olivier Bouquet, who wrote the analysis, wrote that President Erdogan closed the first round of the elections ahead because he presented himself as the defender of the founding principles of Kemalism.

AFP'S ESSEN IMPRESSIONS :

The international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) took the pulse of Essen, where expatriate Turks ran to vote, in the news it served to its subscribers with the headline 'Erdogan supporters are optimistic in their castle in Germany'.

"I voted for Erdogan because he deserves to be re-elected," says Esra Kose, who goes to the polls in Essen, located in the industrial region of the Ruhr in western Germany. AFP reported that 45-year-old Kose, who wears a headscarf, has been living in Germany, the country with the highest economy in Europe, since the 2000s.

Esra Kose, who can speak a few sentences in German, came to the voting center at Grugahalle Arena with her 19-year-old daughter Feyza Kose. Feyza, who wears Western clothes and is preparing to study physics and mathematics at the university, said that she used the game for Erdogan: "He made the right decisions for that country."

Describing Essen, Germany's ninth largest city, as Erdogan's biggest stronghold, the news agency reminded that the Turkish leader received 75 percent of the votes in the first round in the city with a population of more than 580,000. AFP noted that 65 percent of the votes for Erdogan throughout Germany in the presidential election, and this rate was 10 points higher in Essen.

AFP passed to the world: Erdogan's biggest stronghold

3.4 million Turkish voters are registered abroad and Germany is the first country with more than 1.5 million voters.

CRESCENT-STAR NECKLACE :

Nevin Toyunkel, another voter in Essen who expressed her preference at the ballot box, says, "I voted for Erdogan because the country is moving in the right direction with him."

Writing that 53-year-old Tonyukel grew up in Germany as a supporter of the AK Party, AFP added that the female voter is a miner's child, like most third-generation Turks in the Ruhr region. Tonyukel's father is one of the Turkish workers who immigrated from Konya to Germany.

Noting that Turkish flags were waving in front of the Grugahalle Arena, which was transformed into a huge voting center, AFP commented that the voters who were supporters of the government were better organized than the opposition.

AFP passed to the world: Erdogan's biggest stronghold WASHINGTON POST:

HOW DID ERDOGAN WIN THE EARTHQUAKE-SHAKELED SOUTH OF TURKEY?

The American Washington Post, on the other hand, focuses on the south of Turkey, where historical earthquakes occurred on February 6. The newspaper 'How did Erdogan win the earthquake-shaken south of Turkey?' In its news title, it was stated that earthquakes took place during the period when the Turkish leader was preparing for the most difficult elections of his 20-year rule.

Reminding that the polls before May 14 were wrong, The Washington Post wrote that voters strengthened their support for the Turkish leader in the earthquake zone, which was a traditional stronghold for Erdogan and the AK Party. The Washington Post also included the views of earthquake victims from Gaziantep Nurdagi in its news.

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