Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the face of Turkey’s six-party opposition alliance, is the symbol of a potential new future and poses a tangible threat to the president.
Two weeks remain until Turkey’s most decisive elections in decades will determine the future of its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mr Kilicdaroglu was born in the eastern Tunceli province to an Alevi family, members of a long-persecuted sect, and started his career as a civil servant with the Finance Ministry. He later entered parliament as an Istanbul deputy in 2002 and has led the opposition since 2010.
Mr Kilicdaroglu, 74, is the leader of the centre-left Republican People’s Party (CHP) — the product of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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