DEM Party's Istanbul candidate applied at 16:55: Erdoğan calls it a 'trick'

President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at a rally in Balıkesir.

Highlights from Erdoğan's remarks are as follows:

I expect you to stand with the 'Century of Turkey' municipalism with a vote share of over 50 percent in the March 31 elections. With its history, culture, unique nature, and crown-jewel people, Balıkesir will do what is worthy of itself. I have just requested the official figures. There are 85 thousand people in this area today. Mashallah. We were together with my Balıkesir brothers and sisters all along the streets on the way. What a beauty this is.

CRITICISM OF DEM PARTY'S YSK CRISIS

You see the comedy happening in Istanbul, don't you? Some are trying to deceive the nation with the trick of 'we were left to the last minute, we couldn't change the candidate lists'. Fortunately, even when they try to deceive the nation, they cannot do their jobs properly, and the games they play backfire on them. The internal strife in the opposition parties is a disaster in itself. The disgrace is knee-deep. While we were determining the names of Murat Kurum in Istanbul, Turgut Altınok in Ankara, Hamza Dağ in İzmir, and Yücel Yılmaz in Balıkesir, we paid attention to ensuring that they were profiles that would keep pace with our cities' 'Century of Turkey' march. There is no standard on the opposition side.

CRITICIZED CHP THROUGH DEM PARTY

We are also saddened on behalf of those who support the CHP. We already know that the CHP, which we have been facing for so many years, has no projects for the future of the country and the nation. On top of all this, in the recent period, this party has drifted into a path where it considers every means permissible to maintain its existence. Its search for a consensus with Kandil by calling it a 'city consensus' indicates that the CHP no longer has any common ground with this country and nation. The CHP has now become a pawn in the games being played. Shame on those who have turned the great CHP into a toy for the DEM, which is under the control of the separatist organization, and for marginal organizations. We will focus on our own work.