She told that if she was elected, the country would ``head towards a common future'', including those that had been displaced from the south and had come from the Turkish mainland after 1974, and that ``the outdated mentality would become history''. Prime Minister *zkan Yorganc*o*lu, former president Mehmet Ali Talat and former prime minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer also spoke in the rally, and Talat claimed that they would win the election in the first round. During his campaign, *zersay promised that if elected president, he would not only follow an active diplomatic policy in the negotiations, but also combat the ``rife partisanship and nepotism'' in politics, which he claimed was a role neglected using the peace process as a pretext.
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