Will he win the presidency of Turkey?.. Get to know Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Atatürk’s heir and supporter of Bashar

Who will rule Türkiye tomorrow? .. This is the question that occupies the whole world, during the next 24 hours, with the start of the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections tomorrow, and here the choice has become clear, either the ruler of Turkey the morning after tomorrow will be President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom observers describe as radical, pragmatic and reformist, or To be Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who is the Alawite, the heir of Atatürk, and the supporter of Bashar. Here, we draw the profile of the leader of the People’s Party, who has the best fortunes, according to the latest opinion polls.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.. Alawi is Atatürk’s heir and Bashar’s supporter

“I will bring you well-being and spring,” thus Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People’s Party, promises the Turkish voters before the presidential elections tomorrow. These are the stations of his life and policies.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is the head of the opposition Republican People’s Party.
He was born on December 17, 1948 in the town of Nadhimiya, Tunceli Province, in eastern Anatolia. He is 74 years old.
His family belongs to the Alawite sect.
He is the fourth among the seven children of the family, and the father of two daughters.
He completed his elementary and intermediate studies in the schools of his state, then joined the Elazig Commercial Secondary School, which he finished with honors in 1967.
He moved to university studies in the capital, so he entered the Ankara Academy for Economic and Commercial Studies, from which he graduated in 1971.
He worked in the Turkish Social Security Corporation starting from 1992, and assumed responsibility for its general administration between 1997 and 1999.
He began his political activity in 2002 by joining the Republican People’s Party, which considers itself the legitimate heir to the policy and thought of the founder of the republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
He ran in the Turkish Parliament elections in November 2002 and then in August 2007, and won the membership of Parliament in the second district in Istanbul.
He ran for mayor of the Greater Istanbul Municipality in the local elections held in March 2009, but he won only 37% of the vote, losing the position to the candidate of the Justice and Development Party, Kadir Topbaş.
In 2010, the General Assembly of the CHP elected him president of the party after the resignation of his predecessor, Deniz Baykal.
The party, under his leadership, participated – with the opposition National Movement Party – in the candidacy of Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to compete in the presidential elections that were held in August 2014 for the first time by direct vote, but lost to the strong candidate of the Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Klejdar was re-elected in 2014 as head of the People’s Party, leading him to the parliamentary elections in June 2015, and in their re-election in the following November, and the party won second place in the two rounds, and its president was also re-elected to parliament.
He is known for his strong opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the policy of the ruling Justice and Development Party, and also opposes the Kurds and their rights, and he is one of the biggest defenders of the secular values of Turkey and the legacy of Ataturk.
He strongly opposes the foreign policies of the Justice and Development Party headed by Erdogan, especially with regard to the issue of openness to the Middle East and the Arab world.
He opposes Turkish interference in the affairs of Syria, and he also criticized the severing of relations with Israel, because, in his opinion, it harms Turkey.
He is one of the most supportive of the Syrian regime, which observers say is due to his Alawite Shiite sectarian background and the fact that his party is generally affiliated with this sect. He also has a strong relationship with the regimes in Iraq and Iran.
He also has relations with some Turkish generals convicted of the coup attempt against the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey.
During the 2016 coup attempt to overthrow the regime and seize power, Klejdar stood against the coup and criticized its participants despite being leading the largest opposition party to the ruling regime. On the morning after the attempt, he was present among his colleagues in parliament to announce their support for democratic legitimacy.
Despite his opposition to the government and his repeated criticism of the policies of the country’s president, Erdogan, Kilicdaar accepted an invitation from the latter to meet him at the Republican Palace on July 25, 2016, a meeting that was considered a central shift in Turkish national relations.
On March 6, 2023, the Turkish opposition coalition – known as the “six-party table” – announced that Kemal Kilicdar is its candidate for the presidential elections to compete with the leader of the Justice and Development Party, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He drew up a program titled “Turkey of Tomorrow”, which is 240 pages long and includes more than 2,300 goals, agreeing on general goals related to the country’s political and constitutional system; Most notably, the return to the parliamentary system, along with defining the mandate of the president and making his role honorary.
It is noteworthy that Atatürk’s pictures are raised at election meetings in support of Kilicdaroglu, while the candidate’s posters bear the slogan: “Hello, I am Kemal, I am coming!”
Kilicdaroglu, who enjoys indirect support from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, is trying to promote the possibility of his victory in the elections and work to change the system of government and fix economic problems.