Last Updated: April 26, 2023, 04:01 IST
Erdogan stripped the legislature of a lot of its powers within the second decade of his rule. (Image: Reuters)
The 69-year-old Turkish chief on Tuesday gave three marketing campaign speeches heading right into a knife-edge parliamentary and presidential election on May 14
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday interrupted a stay tv interview earlier than returning and apologising, saying he had developed a abdomen bug.
The 69-year-old Turkish chief on Tuesday gave three marketing campaign speeches heading right into a knife-edge parliamentary and presidential election on May 14.
He was because of shut out the night time by showing stay for a joint interview with Ulke TV and Kanal 7. However, his tv look started greater than 90 minutes not on time after which reduce off in the midst of a query ten minutes into the present.
The digicam shook and the reporter asking the query stood up from his chair when the published reduce off.
“Oh wow,” an unidentified voice could be heard saying off camera.
Erdogan returned about 15 minutes later to apologise for getting sick.
“Yesterday and today were hard work. That’s why I got a stomach flu,” Erdogan mentioned.
“At one level, I questioned if it could be misunderstood if we cancelled the programme. But we promised. I ask in your and our viewers’s forgiveness.”
His face looked tired and his eyes appeared to water as he spoke.
The Turkish leader then took a few more questions before ending the broadcast.
Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted party have dominated Turkish politics for the past 20 years.
But the campaign is posing one of Erdogan’s toughest challenges of his mercurial rule.
Polls show him running neck-and-neck or losing to opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
“I convey my best wishes to Mr. Erdogan,” Kilicdaroglu tweeted moments after the episode aired.
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