President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival in next month's election has confronted a Turkish political taboo by speaking out about being an Alevi -- a group targeted by decades of discrimination and violent attacks

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Kemal Kilicdaroglu's video message to young voters late on Wednesday addresses the unspoken worry that voters in the predominantly Sunni country are not ready to elect an Alevi president on May 14. "'Historic speech'Kilicdaroglu's message created a sensation less than a month before Turks vote in what is widely viewed as the most important election in the strategic country's post-Ottoman history. Saadet, a small Islamic-rooted party that broke ranks with Erdogan and joined Kilicdaroglu's opposition alliance, also tweeted its support

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