Turkey’s main opposition parties to nominate ex-head of OIC Islamic body İhsanoğlu for Turkish presidency. HT: Hurriyetdaily.
The two major opposition parties represented at the Turkish Parliament have finally announced their agreement for nominating the former head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, as their joint presidential candidate.
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu officially announced on June 16 that the senior diplomat would be announced as a joint candidate with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), in a move they dub “The Grand Conciliation.”
“We are proposing a name who will be accepted by everybody and who will set a model for everybody with his reputation, honesty, knowledge and experience: Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu,” Kılıçdaroğlu told reporters as he made a joint statement with MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli following their meeting at Parliament.
@DanielPipes in a theocracy this is what you get: a hardliner and a moderate candidate. All others are excluded as having no voter base..
— CEM TOKER-LDP GN BSK (@tokcem) June 16, 2014
@aaronstein1 @06JAnk @bironerimvar Another tack: he's a papal pawn, keen to execute the vatican's plans for Turkey. pic.twitter.com/9xdrdWf1eE
— Noah Blaser (@nblaser18) June 16, 2014
MT @BarbarosSansal: EKMELEDDİN is a close mate of OPEC Founder, Ex Saudi Petrol Minister Zeki Ahmed Yamani...
— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) June 16, 2014
#PT Of course, having "Kemal" hidden in one's name never did anyone any harm with the CHP party leadership either :)
— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) June 16, 2014
Kılıçdaroğlu confirms İhsanoğlu is CHP candidate: http://t.co/fQUqPzAWJy Astonishing.
— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) June 16, 2014
So Turkey's secularist presidential candidate is the former head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation? How times have changed...
— Benjamin Harvey (@BenjaminHarvey) June 16, 2014
#PT It's claimed that this is reheated news from 2013: http://t.co/Qsp0zRGBGk
— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) June 16, 2014
MT @bironerimvar: If İhsanoğlu is RTE's rival, Erdoğan's disinformation will be "this OIC General Secretary supported the Egyptian coup."
— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) June 16, 2014
@06JAnk @bironerimvar was thinking the same...that and Azhar educated will definitely tie in to his pro MB agenda
— Tamer Abdelaal (@zanesfather) June 16, 2014
@06JAnk @bironerimvar They were very forceful in their condemnations of the OIC during the period.
— Aaron Stein (@aaronstein1) June 16, 2014
@KiziKara @06JAnk @Nesrinnas not at all. Here's what I think: http://t.co/YgSFgydP3F
— James in Turkey (@jamesinturkey) June 16, 2014
Ihsanoglu's candidacy may well draw AKP votes -- CHP focused on stopping Erdogan presidency and willing to pay a price (name corrected)
— Mark Bentley (@MarkABentley) June 16, 2014
The good news is he could win, the bad news is he could win.
— Claire Berlinski (@ClaireBerlinski) June 16, 2014
First pro-AKP conspiracy theory about Ihsanoglu -- the Vatican is behind his candidacy pic.twitter.com/Pnx13o9OqK
— Mark Bentley (@MarkABentley) June 16, 2014
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