Hasan Hastürer from the Havadis newspaper wrote this in February: “Without discriminating against anyone, I want to write this very openly. The competition to see who would become the new UBP leader was a period when every imaginable sort of embarrassing offer was being thrown about. It was a race to find people's Achilles' heels. ... Those with weak spots were approached and what was strange was that people openly agreed to offers.”
The newspaper Volkan published a letter criticizing MİT's dirty under the table games: “From the moment Önkol, sent to the KKTC by MİT, set foot in our country, he began to talking using foul swear words and making belittling remarks. In fact, he began tossing about threatening rhetoric in every direction, saying: ‘they will all be eliminated, they will be sent to Silivri; government ministers and bureaucrats will be removed from their posts, newspapers will be shut down, this is all my duty to take care of these things.'
“At the same time, open pressure began being placed on ministers, MPs, mayors, civil society leaders and journalists while allegations were being made against the KKTC president, the UBP general leader candidate and anyone who supported them. … Atalay and Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım also met up with UBP delegates to spread propaganda in favor of Küçük.
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