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Surprising claim regarding AKP's Istanbul candidate! 'Erdoğan will kill 3 birds with one stone with this name'

Journalist Sevilay Yılman listed the potential candidates that AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is considering for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM). Sharing on her X account, Yılman wrote, "The President will not nominate any of these! He will announce that name he has been keeping in his pocket."

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As the local elections approach, there is great curiosity about which name the AKP will nominate against Ekrem İmamoğlu in Istanbul.

AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in a statement to journalists before a meeting with the party leadership, said, "You will hear the Istanbul candidate on Sunday."

While many names are being discussed in the corridors for the AKP's IMM candidate, journalist Sevilay Yılman made a striking claim on her social media account.

"ERDOĞAN WILL KILL 3 BIRDS WITH ONE STONE WITH THIS NAME"

Relaying a conversation she had with a 'highly trusted' source, Yılman claimed that Erdoğan would nominate former TOKİ President and Fatih Mayor Ergün Turan.

Yılman's post is as follows;

"I am in Ankara. The corridors are quite active…

Everywhere, people are talking about who the Istanbul candidate that President Erdoğan will announce on January 7 might be. A source I trust very much made the following analysis;

'Erdoğan loves to confuse people by testing the waters, but in the end, he still makes decisions by trusting his experience. He tested the name Selçuk Bayraktar. He also tested the name Ali Yerlikaya. And the names Murat Kurum and Fahrettin Koca… Indeed, in the simulations conducted, Bayraktar leaves Ekrem İmamoğlu behind by at least 4 points.

The other names are neck and neck in the election.

But mark my words! The President will not nominate any of these! He will announce that name he has been keeping in his pocket. And with this name, he will kill 3 birds with one stone!'

So who is this stone? Former TOKİ President, the current mayor of Fatih, Ergün Turan…

According to my source, which birds does Erdoğan aim to kill with Turan? ONE; He will confuse the minds of the Trabzon lobby, which İmamoğlu trusts very much, with Mr. Ergün, whom the people of Trabzon value highly… TWO; With Turan, who is the most successful president of TOKİ, he will put forward a serious claim as the hope for the fastest and most accurate solution in urban transformation, which is Istanbul's greatest need! THREE; He will reconsolidate the angry, anxious AK Party voters who complain about economic negativity and high costs and say they will not go to the polls, with Ergün Turan, the most successful AK Party district mayor in Istanbul, and carry them to the ballot box…

Let's see if this analysis will hold true?"