Turkey’s Anti-Immigration Challenger Tops Erdogan on Twitter
- Ozdag’s tweets more popular than president’s for first time
- Zafer Party leader’s profile surges on anti-refugee sentiment
Umit Ozdag
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Turkey’s leading anti-immigration opposition politician now gets more “likes” than President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter, underlining the firebrand’s outsized effect on political debate ahead of elections next year.