Arab Media: Syrians With Turkish Citizenship Will Prefer Erdogan

The May 14 elections are high on the agenda not only in the Western media, but also in the Arab media. The Lebanon-based digital media platform Cradle analyzed the elections due to take place on Sunday from the perspective of Syrians, who are Turkish citizens. living in Türkiye.

The article, published under the byline of the editorial office of the media organization, used the headline “Syrians with Turkish citizenship see Erdogan as the best of the worst in the elections.” While many experts are said to say that these elections are the most difficult test for President Erdogan and the AKP, “For those with Syrian and Turkish citizenship, the difference between Erdogan and the main opposition party CHP and its candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is small. Both sides are making promises to get Syrian refugees out of the country,” the statement said.

“I WILL VOTE FOR AKP BECAUSE IT IS MORE STABLE”

An engineering student named Hatim al-Abdullah, who will be voting in this election, told Cradle: “I look at the current government and the promises of the opposition, and they are almost the same. “I will vote for the current government because it is more stable,” he said.

While Al-Abdullah is claimed to be one of the estimated 20,000 Syrians who will vote, Abdulkadir Alflefl, a member of the Syrian National Council, which consists of the opposition to the war in Syria, said Syrian voters see Erdoğan as “the best of the worst.” As a reason for this, Alflefl said: “AKP is the first party to communicate with Syrians with dual citizenship. Others ignored us,” he said.