punter president erdogan claiming victory, as yet not officially announced, but to all intents and purposes, that seems to be the case. we have seen the opposition candidate kemal kilicdaroglu also giving a speech and he was strongly worded but he did not explicitly admit defeat. let s speak to arda tunca. he s a columnist and economist at politikyol. we have talked a lot in recent days and weeks about the turkish economy and weeks about the turkish economy and it has been that hot button issue for the politicians and the daily issue for turks. what is the state of the economy? what is it like on a daily basis, living in turkey? it like on a daily basis, living in turke ? , ., ., ., ., ., turkey? it is hard for a lot of eole turkey? it is hard for a lot of peeple in turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey but - turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey but the - turkey? it is hard for a lot of l people in t
that, by minister viktor 0rban of hungary, and he himself has been widely accused by opposition inside hungary and also by the european union and western governments, of running and authoritarian system in hungary, not too dissimilar to the accusations lodged against president erdogan, minutes later, an hour later, about half past six, he also came in with a congratulatory message on twitter, his official account, to president at the camp so they led the way but as you said with the likes of president and president putin, it will be interesting to see when the messages were similar messages from western leaders start to come in the likes of president zelensky. they have obviously had not always straightforward relationship with president erdogan so it will be interesting when they decide to.
journalists or citizens with detention or arrest or imprisonment orany detention or arrest or imprisonment or any other kind of hard judicial harassment. despite this reassurance, what we have seen in the last few months is that one journalist has already been taken to court and is currently trying to overturn a decision for a treat he published and then deleted and apologised for. and still the court case is going on. in the meantime, we have seen the governing allowances rallies showing fabricated videos of terrorist leaders showing support for kemal kilicdaroglu via the corrections against these videos have not been at in the same screens or not even in the media. and any kind of statement made by the opposition, if
has declared president erdogan the winner. earlier we saw opposition candidate kemal kilicdaroglu addressing supporters saying that the fight would continue and that it had been the most unfair election. seen that he did not explicitly concede defeat because at that point there had been no official announcement but like i said, the turkish election chief has declared that president erdogan is the winner of this poll. he has beenjoining us throughout our coverage, shayan sardarizadeh from bbc verify. your monitoring what is happening online and on social media but what are you saying, what are people saying? 1truiith saying, what are people saying? with that seech saying, what are people saying? ti that speech coming from mr kilicdaroglu, i m checking what people are saying online. what supporters of president ed again, it is basically done, the election is over. president erdogan. he will
during the first round, they are not saying there has been some massive fraud going on but they are saying the way the election has been fought and battled has been unfair in the sense that they think the president, mr erdogan, has had pretty much all the advantage throughout the campaign and the entire establishment machine has been behind him and supporting him basically at his behest. whereas the opposition has basically not got a fair shot throughout the campaign, both from the media but also from the authorities, from the people in charge of running the election. i am detecting a massive or major call for people to take to the streets or to start challenging the results on a wide scale, on a massive scale