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Monday, October 26, 2015

Kurds Central to Turkey Vote

Kurds Central to Turkey Vote
Henry Ridgwell

October 26, 2015 9:06 AM
EYIBA, TURKEY—

As Turkey faces its second parliamentary election in five months, the country's Kurdish minority has once again become central to the vote. The pro-Kurdish HDP party won seats in parliament for the first time in June, depriving the ruling AK party of a majority. After hopes that a cease-fire deal between the government and PKK Kurdish separatists in the east would finally bring peace, fighting erupted again over the summer.

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