Seeking to go beyond polarising party politics, CHP branding is not encouraged with supporters just waving Turkish flags. In November 2015 parliamentary polls, over 61 percent of Corum voted for Erdogan’s ruling party but CHP officials claim to be making inroads. In one of first acts as candidate, he went to meet Selahattin Demirtas, the imprisoned presidential candidate for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). Symbolically, Ince’s first election rally was in Edirne in Thrace close to the border with Greece but his second was in Hakkari, a Kurdish-majority city at the opposite end of the country on the border with Iraq and Iran. “I am the left wing child of a conservative family,” he told Fox News Turkey in an interview.

Source: The Express Tribune May 23, 2018 07:52 UTC