"TURKEY: KURDISH POLITICIANS STRIVE TO SEIZE HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY IN UPCOMING ELECTION
YIgal Schleifer 7/10/07
One recent day under a blazing morning sun, Selahattin Demirtas, a member of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and a candidate for parliament in Turkey’s southeast region, was out and about pressing the flesh.
As he works his way down the main street of Ergani, a dusty agricultural town of some 60,000, Demirtas, dressed in a light gray suit despite the heat, stopped to greet storeowners. "Chawani bashi?" said Demirtas, a human rights lawyer from the nearby city of Diyarbakir, asking the shopkeepers how they are in Kurdish."
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