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What went wrong with Turkey’s Kurds?
Tipping point not yet reached.
[Rudaw] Weeks after the latest elections, a sense of disappointment overwhelms many Kurdish politicians and the public in Turkey due to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) poor performance and the opposition’s failure to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Eight years ago, for the first time, a pro-Kurdish party passed the 10 percent threshold and entered the Ottoman Turkish parliament when the HDP gained 13,12 percent of the votes in the June 2015 parliamentary election. Prior to this victory, Kurds only entered the legislature as independent politicians. When the results were canceled due to AKP’s failure to form a new cabinet, the HDP votes decreased to 10.7 percent. Three years later, the party performed well again, winning nearly 12 percent of the vote. This gave Kurds hope for a bright future in a country where they had been systematically oppressed for decades.

Both wins were largely due to strong campaigns fueled by inspiring words from the HDP’s charismatic and young leader Selahattin Demirtas.
Posted by: trailing wife 2023-06-07
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=669156