...The YPG’s victories similarly enhanced the Kurds’ standing inside Turkey itself. In the June elections to the Turkish parliament, the Kurdish HDP party won 12 percent of the vote nationally, and so blocked Erdogan’s AKP party from winning a parliamentary majority...
if we (the seculars) did not support HDP's entry to the National Assembly then Erdogan's power would reach a level that he can change the Republic to a Federation or something like that.
this is an issue about election mathematics.
ironically the fate of Turkey seemed to hang in the hands of Ocalan's HDP. tho this is not valid today.
the reason behind the restart of moving against pkk (not Kurds) is that Erdogan seemingly thinks that negotiations are a main cause of AKP's lost votes.
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