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Support for Kilicdaroglu grows among Turkey’s wider opposition

Having been nominated by six-strong bloc, other parties indicate support for Kemal Kilicdaroglu in May presidential election 

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Chairman of Turkey's Republican People's Party Kemal Kilicdaroglu speaks at the parliament in Ankara on March 7, 2023. Kilicdaroglu has been endorsed by five parties to be an opposition alliance presidential candidate in the country's May 14 general elections. — ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images

ISTANBUL — Having secured the nomination as the main opposition alliance’s presidential candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu received a tide of congratulatory messages from the heads of parties outside the alliance, raising the possibility of wider backing in the May vote. 

A weekend of horse-trading shored up the Table of Six alliance after one of the coalition’s main figures spoke out against Kilicdaroglu’s candidacy on Friday. 

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