counter pressure Kurdish people It is perhaps one of the most bleeding wounds of Turkish society. In a country of 85 million people, Kurds to represent among 15% and 20% and this year they may be the key that opens the door to the government of a strong opposition coalition that has emerged from current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Recent polls show that the pro-Kurdish alliance, which is part of the opposition coalition, could win elections. 15% of the vote. a figure that will inevitably make Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and its partners, key players on the winning side. The Kurdish nationalist movement, on the other hand, did not nominate candidates for the presidential election and chose to support the opposition’s joint candidate, the Social Democrat. Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
This important role of the Kurdish movement on the political scene, new factor in the politics of the Anatolian country. “There has never been a situation so close to the emergence of an alternative candidate to the power holder. real options To dismiss Erdogan,” he explains. Senen Florence, diplomat and executive chairman of IEMed. It didn’t really matter who the Kurdish parties supported until now because the elections were practically decided before they even took place.
There are many doubts arising about the future separation of powers If the opposition manages to win, the Kurds will certainly not be a part of it. “It is not possible to predict the weight distribution in a government led by Kılıçdaroğlu. fire erdogan‘, predicts Florence. disdain to that minority.
Erdogan authoritarian drift
This discrimination that the Kurdish population has been subjected to since the beginning of history, Republic of Türkiye In the last years of Erdogan’s authoritarian orientation, it was concentrated in the hands of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Government. Such is a possible Kurdish fear. match void Calling for a vote to a small party affiliated with the Kurdish left, the HDP dodge the outlaw After being persecuted and defamed by the government. Erdogan’s executive branch accuses him of being the political arm of the terrorist organization PKK, an acronym representing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. assuming your identity Green Left Party (YSP) They bypassed the outlawing process, which the Constitutional Court should decide in the coming weeks.
This party’s request to vote for the opposition candidate is only a strategy Having more options to remove Erdogan from power. And, in part, it also answers: harassment and destruction situation to which the leaders of this minority in the country are subject. Moreover In prison with a party of 4,000, Among them, the charismatic ex-co-leader of the Kurdish nationalist formation, Selahattin Demirtaş, has been detained in the country since 2016, despite the Strasbourg Human Rights Court’s continuous requests for release.
According to local media, the strategy of unifying the votes for the opposition candidate is bearing fruit. Turkish newspaper ‘Bianet’ reported on Kılıçdaroğlu’s advantage in Turkey’s four largest Kurdish-dominated provinces days ago. The opposition candidate put forward his intention to vote a week ago. 64% wide margin A survey of 5,799 people in the provinces of Diyarbakir, Van, Mardin and Urfa from April 21 to 29, points to Rawest Research, compared to the 36% projected for the current president.