In Istanbul, Europe and Asia are connected in one city. It is an apt symbol for Turkey, which in the past, was often seen as a bridge between the East and the West.
Over the years, animosity between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the West prompted the country to look to Russia and the Middle East for allies.
Erdogan’s main rival in the upcoming election Kemal Kilicdaroglu says if he wins, Turkey will turn again to the West.
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from the Turkish capital Ankara.
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Turkey may turn to west and work as their side man or slave and there is no dignity..it should better be poor and dignified.. The riches comes with selling dignity is just a slavery
May Allah destroy Islam’s and Turkiye’s enemies who are openly racing to serve the West.
what leader in their right dam mind would want to embrace the west?
What he means by the west is to make Turkey a western-style secular democratic social state of law.
@Aydemir The west isn’t democratic at all lmao, he’s just going to ruin Türkiye. You people must be out of your mind if you vote for him, he wants to make you DOGS of the west.
Going against the interest of his people! This is the end of Turkey!
Noooooo
Down with the American dog kilicdaroglu.
@MeOw all you do is spamming sheep.
@SSM Brodies Its the truth tho mate,you guys know 0 stuff about the turkish politics and how erdoğan is trash
@MeOw do you think Turkiye was any better before erdogan? No! The inflation rate got as high as 89% before Erdogan at the hands of the kemalists and the country was just another insignificant and irrelevant dickrider of the west. Why do you think most old people that actually lived during the time of rule of the kemalists vote for Erdogan? Erdogan turned instabul just from a garbage dumb to one of the biggest and most touristy cities in all of europe, during his rule the gdp per capita went from 3000 to 10000, and turkey’s infrastructure got times better than before. The kemalists were anything but democratic and they kept using dirty tricks like staging coups and putting the blame on canditates for sexual harassment or corruption or or or.. Erdogan will fix the economy just like he did many times before, if you stop being impatient and have some faith in him, oh and also they’re promising to forcefully kick the syrians out of turkiye, ironic, that’s exactly what they did to the armenians, georgians, greeks etc, just to have a “100% turkish state”
So it’s literally conservative vs seculars
Turn to ya rabb so that u may be one of the wise
KILIÇDAROĞLU❤
you just heard in the video that he’s gonna turn your country to a western puppet.
@Bman 🐑🐑
NATO seriously needs consider kicking turkey out nato. Blocking Sweden from joinning nato cause turkey ego is BS. One man should not dictate countries from joining
Lmao, you realize that Türkiye got one of the greatest strategic locations for NATO, since they control the bosporus straight wich blocks the russians from the Mediterranean, and Türkiye also got one of the biggest armies in NATO, just saying. Sweden is useless to NATO compared to what Türkiye offers considering it has one of the biggest armies in the alliance in the first place.
Anyone who votes for this clown is a traitor. And if he wins it’ll be the end of Türkiye.
Erdogan will retain the seat.
Lets hope bot
*not
Voting out an incumbent president will be difficult. I wish both candidates the best.
The opposition candidate can go F himself
@GURUmelon 🐑
@MeOw 🐷 nice picture of the real you
@GURUmelon, 💀
@Emir Yazıcı rüyandayız anladık. Korkma azıcık acıtacak bu sefer 😂
Turning to west is disgusting,
Al Jazeera : Turkey
Me : it’s called Türkiye ,
We all love Erdogan than all his rival.
Opposition turn back turkey “puppet” ONLY ERDOGAN TRUE SHAPING COUNTRY OF IT’S BEAUTY AND TURKEY BECOME STRONG COUNTRY.. GO ERDOGAN! Big no to puppet leader.
Asia should encourage Turkey to join Europe. As soon as she leaves, shut and lock the door for 5 years.
Turkey will never join EU, or at least not in the next 40 years. There’re many reasons for why but being an extremely poor country with a population of over 85 million people of whom the majority is younger than 30 is enough. Literally like 1/3 of the Turks would immediately immigrate to countries like France or Germany.
Opposition want to turn back turkey on the trash.. MORE POWER TO THE GREAT GREAT LEADER ERDOGAN.! NO TO PUPPETS BY THE US AND THE EUROPEAN. ONLY ERDOGAN for the people of turkey.
This kemal person think Turkiye is inferior to the west, how disgusting that person should never be the president. Who can not think his own culture his own country is on par to the another side of the world.
When Ottoman empire was on its fullest might, even some nearby European countries followed them to show themselves more modern civilized.
and this guy’s shamelessly barking about how he will be loyal dog a loyal slave to the west
If ERDOGAN lost turkey become the puppets of the west. What happen to LIBYA,SYRIA,IRAQ,EGYPT,
AFGANISTAN etc.? What’s next? Turkey? MORE POWER TO ERDOGAN.. YOU R THE ONLY HOPE FOR TURKEY!
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Oh so you want to be Westerner’s slave,
you want to be in a country that’s president thinks that is own country is inferior to the West, Not civilized.
How shameful so disgusting.
Before Erodogan came to power Turkey was literally a some kind of poor country comparing it to this day , have to say . it was no where near powerful as it is today.
And those disgusting liberal supporters forget all those things.
What can you expect from those ungrateful piece of shits
turkey’s youth is pathetic and ungrateful
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Turkey was an actually decent nation before erdoğan came, but erdoğan is treating turkey like his personal property, please do research on this topic.
Turkey should not force it self to be part of the west or the middle turkey should decide for itself
Erdogan must go
vote for Erdogan
Erdoğan is integrating religion into politics, you should not vote him.
Europe and America like the leaders of any nations must be our puppets should not live on there own
He’s going to be subservient to foreign interests at the cost of Turkey & its people. 🤦🏽♂️🤷🏾♂️
I love Erdogan from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
He is pushing his islam in to politics. He will wreck democracy pushing in that backward religion.
He is wrecking the nation.
Turkey needs to become secular and keep islam out of government. Once in it will wreck the democratic system. They cannot join Europe until it allows a free press and women’s rights something Islam will not allow for fear of criticism of Islam.
Most decent and capable leader of Muslim World President Erdogan will achieve Landslide Victory by blowing out all Western propaganda in upcoming presidential election.
Turkish people must beware. Of kilicdaroglu.because openly he says he is a puppet of the west.
Wow I think majority of turkey specially youth is feeling American. But they are Turks 😅😅😅
Pathetic if you ask me.
EU & US no longer trusted.
The West will left you behind..before Akp when you were godless the west always find the way to weaken Turkey.
Just like you born yesterday if you follow with the west..
Go Turkiye! as an Indonesian who also love democracy this is a great step, Erdogan has done his part, now is time for change 🇮🇩🇹🇷
Exactly friedn but some dumb idiots doesn’t understand that that people use religion for politic cuz if they own benefit
❤️🇹🇷 thank you!
Yes, go join the west in their decline instead of continuing in your own rise
He’s not winning
Kemal will sell Turkey to the west 🤡
Turkish people must vote Erdogan back in power. He is what Turkey needs.
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Nope, if we want to have an actual good economy and have a good president unlike the thief running us now, we need kemal.
@MeOw 🐒🐒🐒🐒
Erdogan is not a favorite for Western brokers
TRAITOR HE GONNA TURN TO USA WHO MADE A COUP D’ÉTAT AGAINST TURKEY IN 2016
THIS US PUPPET GONNA MAKE TURKEY GAY-PRIDE COUNTRY
GLORY TO ERDOGAN
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This is the least mature comment i have seen ever. The coup wasn’t made by americans, it was made by a part of the turkish armed forces, and why all of that pride thing, they are human after all, no matter their race, gender etc.
@Emir Yazıcı GULEN IS AN US AGENT
USA MADE THE COUP IN TURKEY BECAUSE US DOESN’T HAVE ANY ALLIES (ONLY UK AND ISRAËL) BUT HAVE MANY VASSALS.
USA WANT TO SEE TURKEY AS HIS ETERNAL SERVANT
@Emir Yazıcı JACQUES BAUD WHO WAS CHIEF IN SWITZERLAND SECRET SERVICE EXPLAINED how and why USA made this conspiracy against Turkey.
USA is managed by ZIONISTS
They are the real power
And among them GEORGES SORROS, and he said in 2014 that Turkey need to let islam and nationalism for beeing like europeans countries, without GOD, without Nations.
The rival of ERDOGAN (J… puppet ) gonna bring to Turkey GAY-PRIDE, LGBT, FEMINISM, WOKE and all West Rubbish culture
Does west wants good for Turkey
Multipolar worlds needs Erdogan for sure…!!!
Sellout
I am an Indonesian Muslim. I support Erdogan!!!!!
ok bro
Wow wonderful. Now u want to be da slave of wests
It doesn’t concern you mind your own business 🖕🖕🖕
No, we want to elect an actual good politician, unlike the thief who is running us right now
If ardogan is no more president turkey will be sold for distruction. I hope this new puppet don’t get elected for the sake of turkeys ppls freedom.
“Turn to the west” such a cowardice and delusional statement. The west that destabilized the middle east, propogate war, injustice. I hope the people remember the Nation’s legacy.
Although Turkiye is still secular, at least it will remain a Muslim Majority. I’m Malaysian and I will endorse Morsi’s liked mentor, Erdogan. If Erdogan loses to Pro-Western, Pro-Israeli & anti-Islam & anti-Russia candidate on Hijab & Palestine, as well as Muslim World & Iran, it could be more dangerous like what happened in Pakistan as Imran Khan was arrested @ abducted. May Allah guide us all.
I Dont understand ur comment but i hope islam lose! You have a city called Islamabad, i couldnt agree more, islam is bad indeed 🤣🤣 greetings from Iran btw!
Aameen
Thanks
Also they should remember, no matter how much pork they eat and walk in lingeries, west will show them their place, west dont forget past, after weakening them, they will take the istabool.
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Don’t be fooled by Kilicdaroglu. He may appear to be fighting for Palestine, but if he falls into the wrong hands such as pro-West, pro-LGBT, Pro-Israel, anti-Islam & anti-Russia, imagine Turkiye will be like Pakistan where Imran Khan was overthrown because of US interference against Russia . Assalamualaikum from Malaysia. May Allah SWT give Erdogan the best opportunity. Although he is stressed due to geopolitics, he knows how to balance this matter.
Please shut up and do research, erdoğan also said that he’d give rights to LGBTQ people.
You can have him once he loses.
Aleyküm selam. Alhamdulillah. ❤
@bu ülkeden umudumu kestim. so sad.most of the turkish are murtad, kafir and mushrik….now-a-days
Malaysians unofficially endorse Erdogan.
All thanks to Necmettin Erbakan’s family for Erdogan’s re-election. And now, I want to see every Muslim conservative leader (& socialist factions) & Eastern Nations (China & Russia) to see him a new victory, for Imran Khan, Palestine, Muslim World, Solidarity etc. Kilicdaroglu may have Islamist Parties. But due to CHP Secularism on Hijab, LGBT, Iran & Israel, we cannot trust the heretical person. May Allah bless @rterdogan in the new era. I know he made a mistakes, but he is the only way for our Muslim community.
My condolences to all Turks if Erdogan loses the election. The vultures of the West are already waiting for their prey.
@Sadiq Abdur Rahman Being a veteran does not make you know modern politics of Turkey. I am in Turkey since I was born, I just know the politics of Turkey better than you.
You are absolutely clueless, erdoğan has been robbing the people of turkey for the last 20 years for his own wealth.
To add to this as well, Erdoğan is an authoritarian leader and his only intention is to steal from the people of turkey, all of his properties are funded by the people, Erdoğan was never a good leader, it is the reverse actually, if erdoğan gets re-elected, turkey will be in a lot of unrest, where the apparent “west” can just swoop in and do anything they’d like, do research before posting stuff like this.
@Sadiq Abdur Rahman youre a us army veteran,you know 0 stuff about turkish politics.
@MeOw Turks will become more poor if this guy wins, The west will milk you dry. Good luck 😉
May Allah give victory to a patriot like Erdoğan, Ameen
May Allah make Erdogan lose, please do not pray without knowing whats going on.
He will loose, then you can have him
Erdogan will make Turkey like its other Islamic brothers !!
Syria , Lebanon , Libya , Pakistan , Afghanistan!!
Its choice between growth prosperity or self destruction and anarchy by Islamism !!
Not Islam you know what’s common bw Syria,Libya, Pakistan,Iraq and Afghanistan they all had western ties
Well, kemal wouldn’t be popular even if he won. He will be subsmissive to the west.
I find Turkiye culture , history impressive and liberating. I find the modern western culture is humiliating and regressive .
if you’re a student of history, you can clearly see the cycle of the rise and fall of nations and society. america is on the decline, make no mistakes about it.
❤Ordogan will win inshaAllah ❤Love from Harar❤
Kilicidaroglu, Loser of Seven Times Will Count to 8,9,10……INSHALAAH
Kemalism in 2023? Turkiye is already a Big Power in the Middle East and Europe, a status that is the envy of the Muslim countries, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Pres. Erdogan has a clear path on where Turkiye is headed. The West will do anything to destroy that path.
West is always hate you, o people of turkiyye.
As far as I know, Kemal Kilicdaroglu will have a similar foreign policy than Erdogan. The only difference is he will use more diplomatic terms and not use ungraceful words to talk about other world leaders. Some aspects of Turkey’s foreign policy that the West doesn’t like will remain and it is ok because Turkey is a sovereign nation. However what should change is the way that plurality is addressed inside of Turkey. Erdogan is authoritarian, he jailed university professors, journalists and many political opponents. It is not the way that a democratic nation should behave. Also, he is using a cultural war vocabulary to manipulate the masses while negociating behind closed doors with lobby groups to take economic policies that are harming the middle class.
To me this just seems like another attempt by the west to get turkey under control, first it was the coup attempt in 2016, and since that failed because the people stood by Erdoğan against the army they are now trying to defame Erdoğan using propaganda, and now they want to install a western puppet in his place.
*Turkiye🇹🇷 have maritime disputes with Greece.*
make maritime border agreement & peace.
I hope kiliclaroglu will win ❤
I would never vote for a person who’s a slave to the west.
Somalis love Erdogan and will be heartbroked if he loses
Kemal kilichdoroglu 🇹🇷❤️
Ashvamedha😂😂😂 back to cooking curry currywala, mind your own business
Turkey was a” sick nation” when it was under kemalist rule.
Once again it will become a sick nation under kemalist rule.
Beware of traitors and pro westerns.
Erdogan, Erdogan, Erdogan 💪💪💪💪
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So he’s openly admitting he’s going to be an agent of the west in Turkiye?
???
Very funny how only arabs support Erdogan in the comments. You cannot see more than 3 actual Turkish citizens wanting him to win AHAHA
Erdoğan champion 🏆
This is why AlJazeera is unreliable media. We know that Erdogan is a super strong leader of Turkiye.
Yeah, he is not gonna win
Erdogan all the way. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ottoman empire back soon
If we lose TURKIYE , the Arabs are partly to blame.
as a Turk. Wtf do arabs have to do with this lol? Blame the chp voting pigs.
The EU including the UK, are like the Titanic! Everyone is jumping ship! Only a crazy person would try to attempt to embark a ship while everyone else is jumping ship! I’m afraid, there’s no light at the end of this tunnel.
What Mr Kemal Kilicdaroglu is offering is tantamount to Harakiri of Turkiye!
You nailed it! Anyone who sees future in the West has no clue and/or is naive, has romantic fantasies. Greetings from an EU citizen.
He is kemalist if the western give them an urine of dog and tell them it was branded whiskey they will drink it and will ask more .
If urdogan is replaced then turkey will be changed into Ukraine
Kemal kilicdaru is lair..he want destroyed islam..we love Erdogan
I dont know outsider geeting offdend if erodgan loose election?, leave to turkey public they know better than u who is best for them why outsider geeting offdend for not supprting current president and requnting turkey public to choose erodgan does they dont havw mind to think to choose good ledr?
The west was mocking turkiye for centuries. Long before so called islamist erdogan, turkiye was not honestly welcomed by EU. Turkiye history was riddled by military coup. Don’t get yourself fooled by the west. Didn’t you notice most of western media keep using turkey not turkiye.. Remember..a circle never be a square
Al jazeera must sink down with Erdogan. F the middle east.
God bless Turkey 🇹🇷
It shows that Kemal’s really out of touch. The west is now morally and economically bankrupt. Only fools who want to jump into a sinking ship.
Forget about the EU they will never accept you no matter who is in power.
I hope that whatever way it plays out, it benefits the Turkish people. Much love, from America.
Conclusion; Erdoğan vs Ataturk.
Bay bay kemal. Go to EU alone or with your team. Theres no free gas there. İn turkiye, we dont need to pay for gas this year and Alhamdulillah, were living in this country safe and sound. No discrimination😅
ErDOGan also wanted to go west, that’s one reason Greece started to build a steel wall.
Kemal is just a western puppet like his forefather Ataturk he is a enemy of islam.
And this is why they keep loosing elections. There is no gain in west for Turkish people.
Great move-the west’s banks are failing, inflation is skyrocketing and will probably be hyperinflation in the near future. They are censoring everything and forcing their LGBTQ+ agenda on everyone and are involved in pretty much every war that is happening today. This is what you get when your leaders think with their bank accounts and not with their people’s welfare in mind. It’s ok, the more dumb games they play the more likely it is they will extinct themselves and everyone else. There is no future with the west in charge and it has to change or we’re all dead. If they collapse there is a slim chance our stupid species will last another hundred years but I wouldn’t bet on it.
If you faces to west Turkiye will back to be loser
You will never be a full member of the EU until You become a non-Muslim country.
Turks are not muslim 3iq
Turkey’s weakness is their basic secular ideology, if the base of the young generation can be corrected then nothing can be stop’em.
For 50 years Turkey has tried to enter EU without any luck. Kemal Kilicdaroglu is a Western puppet who is trying to repeat the same failed policies that existed before Erdogan. Constant military coups, forcing secularism and banning hijab doesn’t benefit anyone in Turkey. And Turkey should never compromise its Islamic roots and should continue to build relationships with Muslim nations.
I watched ertugrul but kemal seem a traitor of his own people by choosing the west