The vote is seen as one of the most important in Turkish history

Turks In Switzerland Back Opposition Presidential Candidate

2023-05-16 02:15:56

Were the Turkish president elected only by Turkish voters living in Switzerland, his name would be Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The Turkish opposition candidate won 57.6% of their votes, clearly more than current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on 40.3%.

This content was published on May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 Keystone-SDA/Reuters/ts

The third candidate, Sinan Ogan, received 1.4% of the votes and Muharrem Ince 0.7%, the Turkish embassy in Bern told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA on Monday. These results were provisional, it added.

Turnout among the 106,000 eligible voters in Switzerland was 56.8%.

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Turks were able to cast their votes at three locations: at the embassy in Bern, at the consulate in Geneva and in Zurich. Erdogan won in Geneva, Kilicdaroglu in Bern and Zurich.

A different picture emerged in the parliamentary elections: Erdogan's AKP party won 30.4% of the votes of Turks living in Switzerland. Kilicdaroglu's CHP got 26.2% and the YSP, a pro-Kurdish green party, 25%.

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