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Friday, June 19, 2015

Will PKK let Kurdish politics move away from violence? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Will PKK let Kurdish politics move away from violence?

After the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) won 6 million votes June 7, surpassing the required 10% election threshold, the question of the day was: Where did these votes come from? According to Erik Meyersson, an assistant professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, about 1.5 million conservative Kurds had decided not to vote for the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

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