Turkey's opposition leader vowed Thursday to send back millions of migrants in a strident message aimed at winning the backing of an ultra-n
Turkey’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to send back millions of migrants in a strident message aimed at winning the backing of an ultra-nationalist who helped push last weekend’s presidential vote to a runoff. Secular opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu delivered his first public address since a landmark election Sunday in which he came in almost five points behind President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kilicdaroglu’s performance was the opposition’s best of the Turkish leader’s two-decade rule. [...] Kilicdaroglu tried Thursday to toughen his message considerably from the more inclusive tone he set in the campaign’s first stage. “Erdogan, you did not protect the borders and honour of the country,” the former civil servant said. “You have deliberately brought more than 10 million refugees to this country… As soon as I come to power, I will send all the refugees home.” Ogan has said he will only back a candidate who cracks down on migrants and fights “terrorism” — a code word in Turkey for Kurdish militants.
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