Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, called Türkiye’s presidential election “decisive” and different than elections in other countries. Stanikzai said that the election in Türkiye is a “competition of two ideologies” that will determine the country’s future.
On Twitter, he said that in the new world order, the major powers “are probably highly interested in the results” of Türkiye’s presidential elections.
Turkiye has relatively good relations with the Taliban and has accepted the group’s representatives at the Afghan consulate in Istanbul.
Over the past months, the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister and other senior group officials have continuously met with the Turkish ambassador in Kabul.
The Taliban have repeatedly announced that they are against holding elections in Afghanistan. However, Taliban members on Twitter have been closely following the Turkish presidential elections.
