Speculation about Erdoğan's good news should be ignored, presidential aide says
Turkey's Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun urged everyone to "ignore" speculation about what President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will reveal on Aug. 21. The president said that his "good news" would be the start of a "new era" in Turkey.
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Turkey's Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun urged people to "ignore speculations" about what President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will announce on Aug. 21.
President Erdoğan said on Aug. 19 that he had some "good news" that he would announce that would propel Turkey into a new era.
Experts speculated that the news was related to Turkey's discovery of a new "energy source" in the Black Sea, which Bloomberg reported on Aug. 19.
"We are all waiting, excited, for the speech that our president will give tomorrow," Altun tweeted on Aug. 20.
Homeland Party leader and Erdoğan ally Doğu Perinçek had also commented on the "good news" on an Aug. 20 broadcast on CNN Turk.
"We'll leave the good news up to Mister President but we were informed that hydrocarbon beds, so natural gas, was found off the coast of Zonguldak," Perinçek said.
Meanwhile, Good (İYİ) Party spokesman Yavuz Ağıralioğlu said in a statement on Aug. 20 that he hopes the president's good news is a reversal of the presidential system.
"I hope that the president says that he vows to become a president for 100 percent [of the country], the spokesman said.