BBC introduces KILICDAROGLU, presidential candidate of Turkey’s opposition to the world
British public broadcaster BBC News has introduced the Nation Alliance’s presidential candidate and CHP Leader Kemal KILICDAROGLU to the world. The news said the mild tempered Kemal KILICDAROGLU was the antithesis of the ’strong‘ President Tayyip Erdogan, who ’played for the tribune’.
Opposition CHP leader who entered the Parliament in 2002, was described as an experienced politician and was described as the leader who became the target of the most attacks in Turkey.
It was noted that he had transformed the ‘tough temperament’ of his party during his 13-year leadership of the CHP and ‘embraced all colors in the country’.
He is the fourth child of an Alawite family with seven children, the report said, adding that he had gained a reputation for ‘ending corruption’ when he was the director of the Social Insurance Institution.
HE LISTENS CALMLY AND CONVINCES
The news also included the views of some former CHP deputies and parliamentary candidate for CHP. Accordingly, one of them said: “When I met him, I thought that he was an evolutionary leader, not a revolutionary one. He focuses on his goal, listens with extreme calmness and convinces at the end of the job. He is very determined when he does what he thinks is right.”
Another one explained that Kılıçdaroğlu was a thrifty person: “He is very careful not to spend extra money on unnecessary things.”
GANDHI KEMAL
A party member also said, “Sometimes events drive us crazy and we can’t help shouting. KILICDAROGLU keeps his calm even then.” He said that when someone entered the room, the CHP leader stood up and shook hands, spoke to people face-to-face, not from behind a desk, and interrupted no one. It was written in the news that Kılıçdaroğlu resembled Mahatma Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian Independence Movement, with this feature and that he had received the nickname ‘Gandhi Kemal’.
NOT A WORD OF HATE HAS COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH
It was stated that Kılıçdaroğlu was not a ‘natural candidate’, and it took months for him to convince other opposition parties to support him in the presidential run. The news ended with following words: “I have never heard even one word of hate come out of your mouth. He may get angry with someone, but he keeps his calm and forgives easily. This is how he has worked with politicians who have opposed him in the past.”
