The elections in Turkey are a panic move and as Spiegel magazine notes: "Erdogan's decision to call elections and not wait until the autumn of 2019 is a sign of weakness and not strength.
The President is calling on the people to go to the polls, not to extend his powers, but to prevent a further erosion of his powers. "The AKP and the MHP may have called a referendum in April 2017 to introduce a presidential system that would give Erdogan even more power, but since then the situation in the country has worsened," Spiegel wrote in a commentary. in the early elections in Turkey.
He also notes that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for 15 years and while appearing daily in the media he still manages to surprise his compatriots, for example by now announcing early elections.
The German magazine's comment refers to the fall of the pound against the euro and the fact that "one in five Turks aged 15 to 24 are out of work. "Turkish companies have debts of 180 billion euros, while foreign investors are withdrawing their capital from the country." He added that "military operations in Syria are adding to the difficult economic situation, which proves that Erdogan does not have a long-term strategy."
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung also reports on the early Turkish elections and the possible emergence of Turkish politicians in Germany: For this reason he has no right to use Germany as a backdrop for his propaganda.
"Turks living here and Germans of Turkish descent should feel at home and understand that in democracies with freedoms, people live better than in systems like Erdogan."