Following the landslide victory in Turkey of the party of Islamic-conservative President Erdogan, concern is growing among some Turks who fear authoritarian excesses. Reactions in Creuse where lives a large Turkish community with the interview of Celik Levent, president of the association of the Turks of Guéret, satisfied with the results and confident about the future of Turkey.
Turkish nationals living abroad do not have the right to vote in today’s parliamentary elections in Turkey. Report in Lyon where members of the Turkish community gathered in a Turkish café to watch the election closely. Factual images that alternate with interviews with nationals Fouat Camak, Murivet Karadag and Sayar Adem, who give their views on the political situation of their country.
Reactions of Turkish nationals of Limoges following the re-election of President Erdogan. As in Turkey, the Limousin Turks are divided. Factual images in an Istanbul polling station that alternate with interviews with members of the Turkish community in France: Ali Güven, founding president of UETD Brive; Sibel Akcakaya, secretary of the CHP Corrèze-Dordogne and Adem Ersoy, president of the CHP Corrèze-Dordogne.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently on an official visit to France. He will be in Lyon tomorrow where he will meet with more than 20,000 people from the Turkish community in the region at Eurexpo. A meeting that looks very much like a meeting, with the Turkish presidential elections scheduled for next August, although Erdogan is not yet officially a candidate. However, his arrival in Lyon is not unanimous in the Turkish community of Rhone Alpes, which has about 200,000 people. Factual images alternating with the reaction of the manager of the Turkish restaurant La Rose Rouge in Lyon: "On Saturday I protest against Erdogan coming to Eurexpo. I don’t like his way of doing things, he wants to impose on the population, to contain it".