Turkish Pres Erdogan sheds predictable tears before general election. (TZ).
Tears were shed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife, Emine Erdoğan, as they listened to a poem in Albania on Wednesday, causing a sensation on social media as users mocked Erdoğan's habit of crying before general elections in order to garner sympathy votes.
Previously on Twitter, images of a chart that detail instances of Erdoğan crying before every major election up until 2015 was circulated with question marks over the year 2015, comically questioning if Erdoğan would keep up the trend.
The image resurfaced on Wednesday evening as Erdoğan could not refrain from holding back tears as a poem was recited by a student of an Albanian religious vocational school during a ceremony to open a mosque in the Albanian capital of Tirana.
The chart detailed when and where Erdoğan cried publicly and noted the corresponding election, starting with the 2004 municipal elections when he cried on TV after listening to Turkish folk music.
The chart next notes that he wept in Parliament after the Turkish national anthem was read in 2007 before the general election. He also cried before the constitutional referendum in 2010. In fact, the only year Erdoğan did not cry in was 2008, when there was no election, municipal or general.
Erdoğan's sobbing was seen by many on Twitter as crocodile tears and a tactic to seem more connected to the people in order to garner sympathy votes for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), something he is not allowed to do according to the Constitution. Hmmm....Crocodiles shed tears when they bite down on their prey. Read the full story here.
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#Erdogan always been crying before all elections #turkey #HDP is only solution to get rid of erdogan pic.twitter.com/ojqT1sAe36
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