Turkey's opposition unsure on embracing pro-Kurdish party

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu greets his supporters at the party's headquarters after a six-party alliance announced him as its presidential candidate, in Ankara, Turkey March 6, 2023. Alp Eren Kaya/Republican People's Party/Handout via REUTERS

ANKARA (Reuters) - A call by Turkey's pro-Kurdish party for talks with an opposition alliance on supporting its joint candidate to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan in May elections has caused unease among some nationalist elements of the diverse union.

Mithat Sancar, co-leader of the left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's third biggest, made the appeal late on Monday after the six-party opposition bloc announced that Kemal Kilicdaroglu would be its candidate.