With the first round of Turkish presidential elections approaching next Sunday, supporters of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the city of Gaziantep are seeking to encourage its residents to vote for Rais in the hope that he will achieve the same success he achieved in 2018. For their part, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s supporters seek to convince people that the Erdoğan era is over and that the opposition candidate is the man for the next stage because he will bring Turkey into the European Union, expand freedoms and strengthen the economy.
Kemal Kılıçdaroglu was born on December 17, 1948 into a family of the Alevi sect in Turkey, is an active democratic politician in Turkish political and public life, the leader of the Turkish opposition in the Turkish parliament, and the leader of the Republican People’s Party. The party, the strongest of Turkey’s main opposition parties, is the main opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party.
He was nominated by the People’s Party for Mayor of Istanbul in the 2009 local elections, but lost 36.8% of the total vote to Kadir Topbash of the Justice and Development Party, who received 44.7% of the total vote and took over as mayor. Municipality of Greater Istanbul.
Kilicdaroglu was elected Vice President of the Socialist International Organization on August 31, 2012.
Prior to entering politics, he was a civil servant and served as CEO of the Social Security Corporation from 1992 to 1996 AD and again from 1997 to 1999 AD.
