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Sevda Erdan Kilic, a CHP parliamentarian for Izmir, however, claimed that it was Sayan and his supporters who attacked the café.

“My adviser’s friends and the police barely rescued him.” “They insulted our esteemed president and me, broke the window of our bus, broke the head of my adviser,” said Sayan. He said bus windows were broken and one of his advisers received a head wound when he was hit by a stone as the bus passed a café displaying posters supporting the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which is strongly supported in Izmir. Savci Sayan, a parliamentary candidate for Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Izmir, western Turkey, said his campaign bus was attacked by opposition supporters on Monday night. In Turkey’s highly polarised political landscape, however, claims and counter-claims blur the facts surrounding incidents. Speaking at the weekend, Devlet Bahceli, head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) that backs the government, denounced the opposition as “traitors will get either aggravated life sentences or bullets in their bodies”.

There are also concerns that the political rhetoric at election rallies could be igniting violence. Incidents of stone-throwing, physical attacks on election workers and gunmen shooting up party offices have all been recorded in recent weeks as Turkey heads towards knife-edge polls in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his 20-year rule. Istanbul, Turkey – The campaign leading up to Turkey’s elections this weekend has been marred by outbreaks of violence across the country.