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title: "Unusual: Erdoğan ‘Off-Air’ For Longer Than 72 Hours"
date: "2015-06-10 16:55:01"
author: "DHA"
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# Unusual: Erdoğan ‘Off-Air’ For Longer Than 72 Hours
\- President Tayyip Erdoğan has stayed off-air from Turkish broadcasters for longer than 72 hours - an unprecedented length of time considering his relentless TV speeches in the months before the general election.
Erdoğan had been appearing on Turkish TV stations as often as three times a day during the campaign season for the June 7 general elections. He even gave a brief, deliberately non-partisan speech at noon on the day he was voting in Istanbul on June 7.
After the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded, lost its parliamentary majority in the election, Erdoğan released a statement calling on all parties to assess the results of the June 7 parliamentary election “healthily and realistically.”
On June 8, he left the presidential mansion in Istanbul after following and evaluating the election results for 20 hours and flew to Ankara at 4:30 p.m. Making no public appearances on June 8, the Turkish president also postponed a meeting he was expected to hold with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu until June 9.
Erdoğan, whose first scheduled public appearance was set to be at a June 11 graduation ceremony in Ankara, chose not to speak to the cameras after his meeting with Davutoğlu on the evening of June 9.
On June 10 afternoon, Erdoğan held a surprise meeting with the Republican People's Party's (CHP) most senior deputy-elect, Deniz Baykal, at the Foreign Ministry residence in Ankara. However, he again did not speak to the cameras after the meeting, keeping his media silence apart from written statements.