this afternoon our time when we thought maybe he would land in germany. >> we are still joined by akbar ahmeds coming to us from the does. c. bureau of "the huffington post." akbar, this visual will now get, of course, sent out and repeated. there's a lot of local media there in the crowd in addition to security. this will probably send a strong signal to the people across turkey. >> absolutely, brian. i'd remind people that you know, as much as erdogan is unpopular abroad he did win two elections last year. faced a defeat in the first one certainly, but won two elections. he has a lot of supporters and they're willing to come out, they're willing to sacrifice and the more erdogan can tell them, look, i'm on your side. i'm a victim, but i survived, the better he looks. >> and what challenge -- what population center is against him, what is the social strata do you think that he has to win over, i guess would be too benevolent a term, that he has to quash now that he is back. >> it's a very dispersed number of elites. there is more liberal and secular turks, right. there are a lot of kurdish v