Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is going to put an end to his political journey.
He indicated this on Friday. Ergodan said that the local elections to be held in March will be his last elections in the country.
Erdogan has been in power in Turkey for more than two decades. Now his statement indicates that he will leave politics.
Erdogan has been in power since 2003. This is the first time that he has talked about leaving the post. “I am working non-stop,” the President said at a meeting of the TUGVA Young Turk Foundation. We’re running around breathless, because for me, this is the final.” “This election is my last election with the authority given to me by law,” he said.
The 70-year-old leader expressed confidence that his conservative Justice and Development (AKP) party will remain in power after he steps down.
He said the results of the March 31 local elections “will be a blessing for the brothers who come after me. It will be believed that the trust you showed in me is now being shown in them also.”
Erdogan’s party AKP is hoping to regain the Istanbul mayorship in elections later this month. 2019: It is under the control of the opposition.
Let us tell you that Erdogan himself was the Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He was elected Prime Minister in 2003. At that time the Prime Minister was the main person in Turkish politics. However, after being PM three times, Erdogan was elected President in 2014 and is now a prominent figure in Turkey.
Actually, there was a constitutional change in Türkiye in 2017. It changed Turkey from a parliamentary system to a presidential system. This abolished the post of prime minister and ensured that Erdogan’s grip on power would remain in place forever.
Erdogan, the winner of more than a dozen elections since 2002, was re-elected to a five-year term in May 2023 in a bitterly contested race.
have spewed venom against India
Whenever Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has got a chance, he has spewed venom against India. Erdogan raised the issue of Kashmir even in the United Nations.
Addressing the UN in September last year, he had said, ‘Peace-related development in Kashmir will pave the way for regional peace, stability and prosperity in South Asia.
This will happen through the establishment of permanent peace in Kashmir through dialogue between India and Pakistan. This time his language was a little softer.
In the year 2020, Erdogan had described Kashmir as a burning issue. Along with this, he also criticized India for abolishing Article 370.
Last year he had stressed that despite the adoption of the UN resolution, Kashmir is still surrounded and 80 lakh people are stranded.
However, the way India helped Turkey after the earthquake last year perhaps forced Erdogan to change his language.