Turkey’s main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu escaped unhurt on Thursday after his convoy came under fire in the northeastern Black Sea province of Artvin. <br /><br /> The government has blamed the attack on the outlawed Kurdish PKK militant group.<br /><br /> Kilicdaroglu escaped injury but a soldier was killed and two others wounded. Some reports say the violence was linked to clashes in the area rather than a targeted attack.<br /><br /> One soldier killed in attack on Turkish main opposition CHP head Kılıçdaroğlu’s motorcade https://t.co/Pi6SyhbZPI pic.twitter.com/AdYy1J5RPl— Hürriyet Daily News (@HDNER) 25 août 2016<br /><br /> Kilicdaroglu heads the CHP, the party of the secular Turkish republic’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.<br /><br /> But at a rally of more than a million people in Istanbul earlier this month, he stood shoulder to shoulder with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, co-founder of the ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party, in a show of unity following July’s failed coup.<br /><br /> Turkish media reports say Erdogan telephoned Kilicdaroglu to wish him well, after the attack.<br /><br /> Erdoğan, politicians call Kılıçdaroğlu after he survives PKK attack https://t.co/aK9aFNyZEV pic.twitter.com/UoilpnCJGB— Hürriyet Daily News (@HDNER) 25 août 2016<br /><br /> Typically, even convoys of top opposition figures are accompanied by a police escort in Turkey, which has faced a series of bombing and other attacks in the past year, raising tensions in a nation with a long border with Syria and Iraq.<br />
