DETACHED FROM THE FACTS CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu also continued to say "Erdoğan is not the old Erdoğan any more. When he would visit Istanbul or live in Ankara he would stay in modest apartments or houses. He used to say 'I am a man of the people and will live like the people do' but now he has retreated into the Palace and detached himself from the facts of the people. He does not realize this. He is sitting in the palace and from hundreds of meters waves at the people from the Palace's balcony. What democracy has waving from hundreds of meters behind an army of bodyguards? He has assumed all powers; he has taken on all the powers that we have won through Republic. Yet this authority was given to the Parliament by the people during Republic." AKP CRITICIZES POLL RESULTS