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Turkey’s CHP opposition party names Muharrem Ince as presidential candidate
[PRESSTV] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has presented senior politician Muharrem Ince as its presidential candidate to challenge incumbent President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First  ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...in the country’s June presidential elections. The CHP leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, announced Ince’s candidacy for the June 24 snap poll on Friday at a packed hall of party meeting in the capital Ankara, alleging that "democracy is under threat" in the Anatolian country under Erdogan, while also touching on the slumping economy and issues in education and foreign policy. Kilicdaroglu, then, put a Ince, a 54-year-old former physics teacher from the northwestern province of Yalova, joined the CHP in the early 1990s and has been a politician for the past 16 years. Known for his fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... and impassioned rhetoric, he became the CHP’s deputy group leader in 2007 and was unanimously selected by all 110 CHP MPs as the best rival the party can present for the rhetorically-gifted Erdogan. Posted by: Fred 2018-05-05 |
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