The armed attack carried out by members of the Kemalist CHP party (so reported by Turkish media) on the AKP booth in Gaziantep, has caused an uproar in the country, while the Islamists are preparing revenge.
In the attack, in which stones and sticks were also used, Ersin Attar, a member of the city council of the Kemalist party, also opened fire with his gun.
4 members of the AKP were injured in the clash. The situation smells of gunpowder from kilometers away in Turkey.
Israeli media: Hezbollah in Turkey is Erdogan's new ally
According to exiled Turkish journalist Burak Bekdil, Hezbollah, which has a branch in Turkey, is Erdogan's new ally.
Turkey's Hezbollah is not to be confused with the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group, although their name has the same meaning in Arabic: The Party of God.
The Turkish-based Hezbollah is a radical Sunni and pro-Kurdish organization.
At the height of its violent campaign between 1991 and 2001, Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs announced that the group's ideology was "war on any non-Islamic regime and administration in countries where Islam is not dominant."
During those years, Hezbollah had almost 100 affiliates and NGOs under its auspices.
After security operations against Hezbollah in 2000, the Turkish public was shocked to learn that the group had kidnapped, tortured and murdered more than 100 Islamist opponents.
Operating primarily in Batman province, Hezbollah killed 188 people in and around the predominantly Kurdish town of Batman.
The victims involved men for drinking alcohol and women for wearing miniskirts.
This organization is followed by many thousands of followers, whose votes the AKP wants for May 14.
Erdogan is not stupid to see that he may need these votes in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
Polls show the presidential race will be close. Most polls show the gap widening against Erdogan.
The average of 11 polls conducted in March put Erdogan's party at 32.8% and its ultra-nationalist partner MHP at 6.5%.
In contrast, the opposition bloc will win a total of 55.4% of the national vote.
Reuters reported that new polls show Turkish opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilisdaroglu leading Erdogan by more than 10 percentage points ahead of the election.
Thus the head of the ruthless terrorist organization HÜDA-PAR (which is an offshoot of Hezbollah in Turkey) became Erdogan's latest political ally.
HÜDA-PAR has announced that it will present candidates on Erdogan's party list in the parliamentary elections.
HÜDA-PAR also agreed to support Erdogan's presidency. "We thank HÜDA-PAR for its support for Erdogan's presidency," Erdogan's AKP party spokesman Omer Celik said after AKP Vice President Ali Yavuz's visit to HÜDA-PAR headquarters on April 3, 2023.
Yavuz said HÜDA-PAR would get "the right number of parliamentary seats" in return for supporting Erdogan in the May elections.
The international community would do well to understand that the Kurds, US allies in northern Iraq and Syria, are not monolithic.
The secular Kurds are not allies of the Turks. But there are also Islamic Kurds who support Erdogan.
If Erdogan does win on May 14, there will be, for the first time, radical Islamic terrorists in the Turkish parliament.
The terrorists of this organization are responsible for torture and the death of hundreds of people in executions of the Islamic State, a NATO member country.
That potential outcome is the hottest topic among Western diplomats in Ankara. Most people are shocked.
This is reported by Burak Bkdil, one of Turkey's top journalists, who was recently fired from a well-known newspaper in the country after 29 years for writing in Gatestone about what is really happening in Turkey. He is a member of the Middle East Forum.
