Continue to queues with ‘correct steps’
AKP DISTRIBUTED FREE BREAD TO VOTES IN ISTANBUL
The parties accelerated their propaganda work a few days before the elections on MAY 14. The AKP Sultanbeyli district presidency also resorted to another method to persuade citizens to vote for them.
Free bread and water were distributed to the public at the stand set up in the district square. The citizens, who showed great interest in the electoral vehicle converted into a tribune, formed long queues to buy water and bread in bags.
The photo of AKP President and Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum, who was nominated as the deputy candidate of the 1st Istanbul Region, was displayed in the vehicle where the distribution of the booth for free. The motto “Keep on the road with the right steps” was found on the vehicle.
CONDITIONAL APPROACH
The insulting words of an official were also reflected in the images taken during the distribution, in which the people of Sultanbeyli showed great interest, and reflected on social media. The AKP official told the citizens: “Get in line! Line up! Hellooooo!” ‘, drew attention. It was not lost on the fact that those in the queue did not react to this.
Meanwhile, the AKP official intervened in the SÖZCÜ team, which was shooting for the news. The images of the queue were interpreted on social networks and among politicians as “the state of citizens in need of bread with an economy of misery and collapse.”
‘There is deep misery’
CHP Istanbul MP Gürsel Tekin assessed the scene in Sultanbeyli to SÖZCÜ. Recalling that he visited the market in the district in recent weeks, Tekin said: “We are facing an economy of deep misery. Not only in Sultanbeyli, but also in Sultangazi, Arnavutköy, Bağcılar… There are such worrying problems, especially in places that are considered castles by the AKP… One of our sisters said that she could not even buy chicken bones in the market. It’s not chicken meat, it’s bone. After the economic model of power has collapsed, there is only one thing left to do, manage poverty. Currently, the government is trying to manage poverty. Our nation does not deserve this,” she said.