Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday stated Türkiye has good relations with each the US and Russia.
Türkiye is “friends with America and Russia and those who are spiteful towards us in the West,” Erdoğan stated throughout a reside broadcast with a number of Turkish tv channels forward of Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
Erdoğan’s remarks got here a day after Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, joint candidate for the six-party opposition Nation Alliance, on Thursday accused Russia of being behind video content material allegedly discrediting candidates for the presidency within the upcoming May 14 elections.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday rejected accusations, saying there could be no query of any interference of Russia within the Turkish elections, and “those who spread such rumors are liars.”
Russia values ties with Türkiye as a result of it takes “a very responsible, sovereign and thoughtful position,” he added.
In Türkiye, the presidential and parliamentary elections will happen on May 14.
On the presidential poll, voters will select between Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu, and Sinan Ogan of the ATA Alliance. Muharrem Ince, one other presidential contender, withdrew from the race on Thursday.
When requested about criticism that he wouldn’t go away the workplace following an opposition election win, Erdoğan stated that he would take into account any end result that comes out of the poll field as “legitimate.”
Earlier on Friday, Erdoğan blasted Kılıçdaroğlu over his remarks on Russia.
Kılıçdaroğlu “is attacking (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and Russia,” Erdoğan advised a youth occasion in Istanbul.
Recalling a 2019 interview by US President Joe Biden who stated the US may assist opposition components in Türkiye to vary the tide of political developments, Erdoğan stated: “But you are helpless, loser.”
“But when you attack Putin now, I’m sorry, I won’t accept it,” he stated.
“Because our relations with Russia are not behind our relations with the US at the moment,” he stated, including that Türkiye’s international commerce quantity with Russia is greater than the US.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
