{"id":15630,"date":"2023-04-26T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=15630"},"modified":"2023-04-26T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T17:07:15","slug":"erdogans-abrupt-departure-from-live-interview-shocks-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/erdogans-abrupt-departure-from-live-interview-shocks-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan&#8217;s abrupt departure from live interview shocks audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTErdogan\">Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> abruptly interrupted a live television interview on Tuesday before returning and apologising, citing a stomach bug as the reason for his sudden departure.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old leader had given three campaign speeches earlier in the day, leading up to a closely contested parliamentary and presidential election scheduled for May 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan was scheduled to end the day with a joint interview on Ulke TV and Kanal 7, which began more than 90 minutes behind schedule. However, ten minutes into the interview, the broadcast abruptly cut off mid-question, causing the camera to shake and the reporter to stand up from his chair. An off-camera voice could be heard saying, &#8220;Oh wow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 15 minutes later, Erdogan returned to the interview to apologise for his sudden departure, saying, &#8220;Yesterday and today were hard work. That&#8217;s why I got a stomach flu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/one-killed-in-new-turkey-quake-69-injured-as-buildings-collapse.html\">One killed in new Turkey quake, 69 injured as buildings collapse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president appeared tired and his eyes seemed to water as he spoke. After answering a few more questions, he ended the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted party have held a dominant position in Turkish politics for the past two decades, but the upcoming election poses a significant challenge to his rule. Polls indicate that he is running neck-and-neck with opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu or could potentially lose the election.<\/p>\n<p>Kilicdaroglu expressed his well wishes towards Erdogan, tweeting shortly after the incident aired, &#8220;I convey my best wishes to Mr. Erdogan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\">Say\u0131n <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTErdogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RTErdogan<\/a>\u2019a ge\u00e7mi\u015f olsun dileklerimi iletiyorum.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu (@kilicdarogluk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kilicdarogluk\/status\/1650979570181455873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming election poses a significant challenge to Erdogan&#8217;s two-decade-long rule, with polls indicating that he could potentially lose to opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan abruptly interrupted a live television interview on Tuesday before returning and apologising, citing a stomach bug as the reason for his sudden departure. The 69-year-old leader had given three campaign speeches earlier in the day, leading up to a closely contested parliamentary and presidential election scheduled for May 14th. Erdogan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[5411,412],"class_list":["post-15630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}