“Our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called CHP chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu by phone, and offered his condolences over the death of his sister Fikriye Dalgıç,” Fahrettin Altun, the presidential communications director, said on Twitter.

Kılıçdaroğlu’s sister, Fikriye Dalgıç, lost her life on Saturday at a hospital in Kocaeli province of northwestern Turkey. (ILKHA)