The Batman city has been besieged by police officers and soldiers before Erdoğan's campaign rally.

All avenues and streets in the city have been blockaded with armoured police vehicles and security barriers.

Photos of Erdoğan were forcibly hung on official public and civilian buildings along the route Erdoğan is expected to use.

As in Erdoğan's previous election rallies, civil servants in the city have been forced to attend the rally.

Village guards in rural neighbourhoods were also forced to get onto campaign vehicles early in the morning.

Hundreds of buses were mobilized in the Batman Airport region, carrying people brought from different cities for the rally.

The government-appointed mayor of Batman who replaced the elected mayor of the city hastily repaired the sidewalks on the Batman Airport Road that had been broken for years.

Athletes within the municipality have been forced to attend the rally in their civilian clothes.