Kemal Kilicdaroglu: Opposition picks 'Turkey's Gandhi' to challenge Erdogan in election
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Turkey's often divided opposition parties have come together to choose a single candidate to face President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in May's election.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu leads the main secular opposition party, the centre-left Republican People's Party (CHP).
Polls suggest a tight race in a country highly polarised after two decades of Mr Erdogan's authoritarian rule.
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