Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s state of health questions a few weeks before the presidential election

Tuesday evening, April 25, in the middle of an interview, Receive Erdogan is taken by an absence in front of the journalist. The Turkish president is as if uncomfortable, and when the presenter asks a long question, we see him embarrassed, something is happening. The camera then remains fixed on him. Receive Erdogan felt unwell. He returns a quarter of an hour later, his complexion pale. He then state had a stomach flu. Simple virus or more serious health problem, awhen he chain meetings at rhythms frantic, Receive Erdogan canceled two days of travel.

Weakened on several points

This enforced rest is unusual especially as it is living a historic moment for Turkey: the inauguration today, Thursday April 27, of the country’s first nuclear power plant. “Our country has risen among the countries with nuclear energy“, explains the President. 17 days before the presidential election, this interruption of the ballot falls to the worst for him. Receive Erdogan is physically and politically weakened.