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Turkey’s Kilicdaroglu promises to kick out refugees post-election

Supporters of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition alliance, turn out at a rally in Ankara on election night on May 14, 2023 [Yves Herman/Reuters]

Turkish opposition leader and presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has promised to send “10 million refugees” home if he wins a May 28 run-off as he shifts to a sharply more anti-migrant tone to try to win nationalist votes and defeat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Kilicdaroglu, candidate of a six-party opposition alliance, made incendiary comments on Wednesday accusing the government of allowing an exaggerated 10 million “irregular” migrants to enter the country.

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