Kemal Kilicdaroglu

Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilincaroglu in the country’s runoff election on Sunday.

Turkey is facing a runoff vote after neither President Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his main rival appeared to have secured the 50% of votes needed to win the elections, preliminary election results showed. State-run Anadolu news agency reported projections based...

On Sunday, May 14, the Turkish general elections will decide whether incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan retains his seat. Erdoğan's main rival is Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the opposition. Political commentators are billing the 2023 election as the...

President Tayyip Erdogan officially set Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections for May 14, a month ahead of schedule, signing the decision in a ceremony shown live on television on Friday. “Our nation will go to the polls to elect its...

Turkey's opposition picked Kemal Kilicdaroglu Monday as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey’s presidential elections in May. The elections are Erdogan’s toughest during his 20-year rule and come amid economic turmoil and criticism of the...

  Turkey's main opposition leader has issued a strong call for the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to clarify whether 18 islets in the Aegean Sea in fact belong to Turkey. Leader of the secular Republican People's Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, made...

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıcdaroglu on December 23 lashed out at Greek defense minister’s remarks on the Aegean islands, saying that he will take back a total of 18 islands “occupied by Greece” in 2019,...

In an interview with a local newspaper, Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu attacked president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for choosing to dispute the Lausanne treaty and not the "18 Aegean islands the Greeks have under occupation." This is not the first...

Turkey’s opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu accused Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan of phony patriotism with regard to Cyprus and the Aegean. Speaking at a meeting of Turkish industrialists on Thursday, the head of the CHP party wondered why Erdogan is not...