Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, its allies call on voters to back Erdogan’s rival

Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party and its leftist allies called on voters Friday to back President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival in the May 14 polls.

The announcement pushes one of Turkey’s largest voting blocs behind opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu and further complicates Erdogan’s path to a third decade of rule.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) - the third-largest in Turkey’s parliament - decided last month not to field a presidential candidate.