(Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press)ISTANBUL — Four opposition parties in Turkey announced a political alliance Saturday ahead of the country’s June 24 national election, aiming to mount a meaningful challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party. Tezcan said parliamentary candidates from the Democrat Party would run under the Good Party. The small party has also announced that it would support Good Party leader and presidential candidate Meral Aksener, a former interior minister. But the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party —the second largest opposition party in parliament— has been kept out of the alliance amid heightened Turkish nationalism. That alliance is supported by the far-right Islamic-leaning Great Unity Party, whose candidates will run under the ruling party’s ticket.

Source: Washington Post May 05, 2018 16:01 UTC