In a morning news show appearance at Fox TV, Kilicdaroglu said Tunc Soyer \u201cshould not be judged\u201d by what his father, Nurettin Soyer, did during Turkey’s 1980s political turmoil.<\/p>\n
CHP’s decision to nominate Tunc Soyer as mayoral candidate for Izmir has been criticized recently, mainly because his father was a public prosecutor in the 1980s — known to be demanding death sentence of 220 people from the nationalist wing, including the founder and former leader of Nationalist Movement Party Alparslan Turkes.<\/p>\n
“Why do you judge children because of their father or vice versa?,” Kilicdaroglu asked. “It is not democratic to blame [Soyer] for his father’s lawsuit many years ago.”<\/p>\n
Kilicdaroglu also said that Tunc Soyer had a “successful” tenure as mayor of Seferihisar, a district of Izmir.<\/p>\n
“We will be strong in metropolitan cities. Hopefully, we will win Ankara, Istanbul, Antalya, Mersin, Bursa, Izmir. Our candidates are in the field, working very hard,” he said.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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