AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was approached by two teacher candidates who had achieved high scores in the KPSS exam during his visit to Rize a month ago, as they tearfully expressed their struggles with not being appointed.
The teacher candidates stated that they had been following Erdoğan from city to city and trying to reach him. Erdoğan replied, "My place is not here, you should have come to Ankara." The young women expressed that they had come to Ankara multiple times and were unable to meet with him. Erdoğan did not accept this response and continued to say, "You should have come to Ankara."
ERDOĞAN'S HARSH REBUKE: YOU ARE LYING!
When the teacher candidates said that the doors at the AKP Headquarters were closed in their faces, Erdoğan became angry and said, "Look, you are lying! My party's door is never closed to anyone!" The teacher candidates replied, "No, we came, but we could not see you." Following these words, Erdoğan headed toward his vehicle, and the teacher candidates' demands for additional appointments remained unanswered.
Footage emerges 1 month later!
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Following the incident, one of the teacher candidates recounted what happened on her social media account. Detailing the process leading up to their meeting with Erdoğan, the teacher said, "We realized afterward that we had not been misunderstood." She stated that upon Erdoğan's instruction, AKP Rize Provincial Chairman Yılmaz Katmer took an interest in them and they prepared a report. The teacher candidate expressed that their only expectation was news of an additional appointment.
Following these statements, the teacher candidate's social media account was deactivated, but it was later reactivated.
News Source: 12punto
