They are persecuted outsiders, influential powerbrokers—and will play a critical role in next month’s elections
Turks will elect parliament and president on the same day, May 14th. The outcome may hinge on the Kurds. Recent polls suggest that neither the governing coalition, composed of the Justice and Development party and the Nationalist Action Party , nor the main opposition bloc, the Nation Alliance, will be able to hold a parliamentary majority. TheIts voters may play an even bigger role in the presidential poll.
The government has since turned even more hawkish, sacking Kurdish mayors en masse, in effect disfranchising millions of voters. It attacked thehas moved further away from the Kurds,” says Vahap Coskun, an academic. “And thehas moved closer.” What this spelled for Turkish politics became clear in the local elections of 2019, when Kurdish votes propelledcandidates to victories in mayoral races in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, and Ankara, the country’s capital.
A separate case, now before Turkey’s constitutional court, may see the party closed down and its leading members, including Mrs Yilmaz, banned from politics for several years. A verdict in this case may be reached as soon as April 11th. To sidestep a possible ban, therecently decided to contest the coming elections under the banner of another party, the Green Left.
Over the years, by refusing to speak up for the Kurds or to speak with a single voice, the opposition was complicit in the government’s persecution of them. Theparliamentarians of immunity and its military operations in Syria. Now the doveish Mr Kilicdaroglu has at least expressed remorse about theif elected, making him the candidate most palatable to the Kurds, says Mr Coskun.
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