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...But this did not necessarily translate into votes for the opposition, with Kılıçdaroğlu — a quietly spoken political veteran from the minority Alevi sect — struggling to convince voters that he is the one...
...Kılıçdaroğlu was born in the eastern city of Tunceli, where his family were members of the minority Alevi sect in what is a mainly Sunni Muslim country....
...“I promise politics that will touch the Kurdish, the Turk, the Alevi, the Sunni, the right wing, the left wing, the poor and the precariously employed,” he said....
...Kılıçdaroğlu, who revealed his heterodox Alevi heritage during the campaign, has been exposed to “he is not a real Turk” innuendo. In the weeks ahead, Erdoğan will capitalise on his momentum....
...Many HDP voters view Kılıçdaroğlu, who was born in a predominantly Kurdish region of Turkey and belongs to the Alevi faith, as a sympathetic figure....
...The fact that Kilicdaroglu is a member of the minority Alevi sect in the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation was also considered a potential weakness that would be exploited by Erdoğan....
...One monologue on Kılıçdaroğlu’s Alevi faith, something many supporters worried would be used against him in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, has garnered more than 114mn views....
...Kılıçdaroğlu, who belongs to the minority Alevi faith in the mainly Sunni Muslim country and was born in a largely Kurdish province, was “making a sincere effort on change and democracy”, Demirtaş said....
...Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the CHP leader, as a member of the minority Alevi sect in mainly Sunni Turkey, almost certainly could not beat Erdogan....
...Though it is rarely openly discussed, many believe that the fact that Kılıçdaroğlu hails from Turkey’s Alevi minority — which has a long history of tensions with the Sunni Muslim majority — would be ruthlessly...
...And it’s also the case that, it’s a bit of a touchy subject, but he comes from an Alevi background, a minority background, and that could be used against him because this is a country in which you have had...
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..., ethnic Turkish and Islamic nationalist identity of the AKP, making it sometimes sound like a neo-Ottoman Tea Party with a triple sectarian stench, treating as “other” the big minorities of quasi-Shia Alevis...
...bombast of sectarianism and Sunni Turkic supremacism (at a rally last month Mr Erdogan made the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolf hand signal associated with the far-right gangs that hunted leftists and minority Alevis...
...“From the pogroms [of Greek families] of 1955 to the mass killing of Alevis [non-Sunni Muslims] in the 1970s, rarely do we end up fully unearthing the people and the institutions and processes responsible...
...Instead, the referendum has unveiled the cleavages in the society that Mr Erdogan presides over — pious Turks pitted against the secular; Alevis against Sunnis and Kurds against nationalists....
...Tolga Balak, another trader, says Berlin’s Turks are “split 50:50”, with Sunni Muslims supportive of Mr Erdogan and many Shia Alevi and Kurdish minorities hostile....
...“Now people ask you if you’re Sunni, or a Kurd, or Alevi Shia,” she says. “There’s this sense that they, AKP supporters, are the majority, and you have to fall in line.”...
...He has sharpened the Sunni, Islamist and Turkic identity of his Justice and Development party (AKP), and has worked to lock his opponents into separate blocs for the quasi-Shia Alevi and Kurdish minorities...
...It is also more dangerous, pitting Turkey’s Kurds, Alevis (a large heterogeneous Shia minority) and west-oriented “secularists” against Mr Erdogan’s nationalist religious alliance in a permanent cultural...
...Her father’s family are followers of the Alevi branch of Islam and come from a village that is not linked to the mainline telephone system, so she has made a film entitled Open Phone Booth (2011) which shows...
...Since becoming president in 2014, Mr Erdogan has sharpened the Sunni, Islamist and Turkish identity of the AKP, polarising it against ethnic Kurds and quasi-Shia Alevi, grouped in separate opposition parties...
...In the past, social divisions were drawn along ideological (left v right, secular v religious), ethnic (Kurds v Turks) or faith-based (Sunni v Alevi) lines....
...Mr Erdogan says he plans to pursue an “Alevi opening” to bolster the community’s rights and met a sprinkling of Alevi leaders at a pre-election dinner this month....
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