Interesting is, Kemal
Kılıçdaroğlu, Erdogan's opponent, the guy who could win the election, is Iranian (decent)
He said on TV, I am an Iranian .. We are from
Khorasan, Iran .. my grandfather, moved to Turkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemal_K%C ... ro%C4%9Flu
My grandfather's tomb is in Akşehir, should I ignore it now? Go investigate. My ancestor is Seyit Mahmud Hayrani.
We are members of a Turkmen tribe that came from Khorasan.
They came from Khorasan and settled in Akşehir in Konya.
Then, when the war between Yavuz Sultan Selim and Shah Ismail took place, they migrated to Dersim. They come from the Turkmen tribe. They are not Kurds. But I'm not a person interested in ethnic groups.[67]
During the 1950s, his father changed their family name from Karabulut to Kılıçdaroğlu, since all the people in the village they lived in had the same family name.[68]
Some journalists have denoted his Alevi identity,[69][64] however Kılıçdaroğlu did not make a statement about his religious beliefs for a long time. In July 2011, he said:
I always refused to do politics upon ethnic identities and religion. I am an Alevi. Since when is it a crime to be Alevi in this country?[70]
He is Alevi Shia , very close to Iranian Shia .. both are 12 Imam and the rest
https://www.refworld.org/docid/42df61b320.html
Alevis in Central Anatolia base their beliefs on 12er Shi'ism.
https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/18805/TU