Friday, November 27, 2015

Will there be a 'Kurdish AKP' in Turkey? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Will there be a 'Kurdish AKP' in Turkey?

Turkey’s June 7 elections marked the end of the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) supremacy in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, where it had been the No. 1 political party since its coming to power in 2002. The rise of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) in the region, which came at the expense of big AKP losses, has prompted the AKP to redesign Kurdish politics.

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