Since Sunday’s elections, Türkiye has been subjected to a disinformation campaign led by the opposition over a so-called manipulation attempt, but it’s entirely wrong and an usurpation of the Turkish people’s will, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) spokesperson Ömer Çelik said Monday.
With Türkiye heading into a presidential runoff in less than two weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fell just short of securing a first-round win ahead of his closest rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the opposition has been spreading the claim that they were “winning by a crushing landslide” despite contrary information from the official election body.
From the early hours of vote counting, Istanbul and Ankara Mayors Ekrem Imamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş, from Kılıçdaroğlu’s Republican People's Party (CHP), went on live television and took to social media platforms to lead “an antidemocratic campaign,” claiming Kılıçdaroğlu was “winning” and “trying to suppress any debate and objections to their fait accompli,” Çelik told reporters at a news conference following a meeting at AK Party offices in Ankara.
He accused the two mayors, who would become vice presidents to Kılıçdaroğlu if the opposition were to win, of “attacking” state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) and other news outlets with claims of “manipulating data.”
“The only source of misinformation that day was the CHP headquarters,” Çelik stressed. “They gave information from a single source while everyone was trying to share...
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