A month before DerWahl in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a performance in Bosnian Sarajevo about voices DerAuslandstürken in Europe. “Are you ready to demonstrate strength of European Turks to whole world?”, Erdoğan said before his followers in capital of Balkan state. “Give from Germany, Belgium, Austria, Nerlands an answer that can be heard anywhere in Europe.” According to Union of European-Turkish Democrats (UETD), more than 10,000 foreign Turks came to meeting, about half of m from Germany.
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Furrmore, Erdoğan said that in presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June it was a decision “for next century of our country”. “Are you prepared to face terrorist organizations and ir local and foreign supporters with an Ottoman slap?” he cried to his followers.
Erdoğan joined a congress of UETDauf. The Union, which is particularly active in Germany, is considered to be lobbying organisation of Turkish government party ACP and has already organized appearances Erdoğan’s in Federal Republic in past.
According to BisherigemKenntnisstand, appointment in Sarajevo was only planned campaign speech Erdoğan’s foreign countries in Europe. The voices of foreign Turks have a significant weight in Turkey’s elections. Countries such as Germany and Nerlands banned election campaign appearances for Turkish parliamentary and presidential elections.
Displeasure in Bosnian Government
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, re had been fierce disputes within three-Member State presidency even before Erdoğan’s election campaign. The Croatian member of Presidium, Dragan Čović, told Zagreb TV channel HRT that he had only heard of event Erdoğan’s from media. The visit attaches great strategic damage to Balkan country Strebendenkleinen to EU.
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Turkey had organized appearance of Muslim member of Bosnian State Presidium, Bakir Izetbegović. Izetbegović, who is known as a close friend of Turkish president, had praised Turkey as an investor and ally day before.
On or hand, second most important Muslim leader, Fahrudin Radoncic, criticized Sarajevo campaign. Erdoğan is about “a demonstration for Western Europe: look, here in Balkans I can be”. Because “Mr. Erdoğan has not so many voters in Sarajevo that this would be interesting for him,” Radoncic told TV channel N1.
1.4 million Turkish voters in Germany
DieParlaments and presidential elections in Turkey will take place at same time on 24 June. The aim is to complete introduction of VonErdoğan and presidential system decided upon in constitutional referendum with KnapperMehrheit. BeimVerfassungsreferendum last year, nearly three million foreign Turks were registered as voters, y provided rundfünf percent of all Turkish voters. The largest group formed 1.4 million Turkish voters in Germany.
In VergangenenFrühjahr, planned electoral campaign appearances by TürkischenRegierungsvertretern in Germany had led to fierce controversy between German and Dertürkischen government before constitutional referendum in Turkey. Erdoğan accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of “Nazi methods” because of his preventive appearances. Last June, federal government n issued a generellesAuftrittsverbot for foreign officials from non-EU countries, which applies three months before an election in ir country.
Erdoğan’s AKPkritisierte recently that German authorities would enforce ban on current election campaign only with her, but not at TürkischenOppositionsparteien. The ACP MEP MustafaYeneroğlu said: “With this federal government is making itself Parteiim campaign of a foreign state.”
