Turkey: Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s, opposition leader who will face off against President Erdogan in presidential elections May 14, is a far more complex figure than meets the eye
March 23, 2023
On Nov. 23, 2011, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the first Turkish leader to formally apologize for the massacres by the Turkish military of thousands of civilians in the eastern province of Tunceli in 1938. The genocidal campaign against the region’s Alevi Kurds, bombing people from the air, gassing them in caves, and bayo…