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PKK won't support Erdogan's presidential bid - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

PKK won't support Erdogan's presidential bid

QANDIL, Iraq — A senior PKK official has ruled out supporting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the presidential elections. Riza Altun, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), told Al-Monitor, “There is no such thing as supporting the AKP administration and siding with it during the presidential election.”

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