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Aiming for coalition unity, Turkey’s opposition parties hit a fork in their roadmap“I need to know, are you really with me? Some of you are silent,” Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said during his party’s Sept. 23 assembly. “We need to decide now. Are we defeating the enemies of the people or not?” Kılıçdaroğlu’s remarks came as six…
Swing vote in hand, Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party holds cards close to its chestWhen İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu won re-run elections on June 23, 2019, he delivered a victory speech saying he’d serve as a unity candidate. "We are here to make peace, to congregate, to reconcile, to talk, to love each other," he said. More than three years later, Ferhat Encü…
