Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party calls for opposition unity after split

ISTANBUL, March 4 — A leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party called on the opposition to unite on Saturday, a day after a separate six-party alliance aiming to defeat President...

ISTANBUL, March 4 — A leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party called on the opposition to unite on Saturday, a day after a separate six-party alliance aiming to defeat President Tayyip Erdogan splintered over who should run for president in May elections.

In a shock move on Friday seen to boost Erdogan’s re-election prospects, the centre-right nationalist IYI Party quit the largest opposition bloc, the Nation Alliance, over the other five parties’ choice of presidential candidate. Polls conducted before the IYI defection suggested that HDP voters would need to back the Nation Alliance in order to unseat Erdogan and win over a majority in parliament from his ruling AK Party and its nationalist allies the MHP.

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