Turkey on Edge as Civil War Approaches: Kurdish Leader

Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

Alwaght: The leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish political party has warned that the country is approaching a civil war between government forces and militant Kurdish separatists.
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic party has said “It is becoming impossible to hold an election given the security situation in the region. We are facing a campaign of lynching.”
The recent remarks made by Demirtas, followed scenes of violence and firebombing in Turkey over the recent days, with hundreds of reported attacks by nationalist mobs on offices belonging to Demirtas’s party, known by the Turkish abbreviation HDP, as well as on ordinary Kurds.
The HDP’s party headquarters in Ankara, as well as hundreds of other posts across the country, appeared to be targeted in coordinated attacks. Prime minister Ahmed Davutoglu, a key Erdogan ally, decried the chaos, which also included attacks on a number of offices belonging to newspapers that had fallen afoul of the AKP. “It is unacceptable to damage media institutions, political party buildings and the property of our civilian citizens,” Davutoglu said.
The HDP – a grouping of leftists and liberals, Kurds and other minority groups – scored a historic electoral victory in June by appealing to both rural Kurdish voters in south-east Turkey and urbane anti-Erdogan voters in the country’s western cities.
Critics accuse Erdogan of re-igniting the fighting with the Kurds, after more than two years of peace efforts, for electoral gains. Opponents say he aims to rally nationalist votes around the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, and discredit a pro-Kurdish party whose electoral gains in an election in June deprived the AKP which he co-founded of its parliamentary majority.
Analysts also doubt Turkey's claims of supporting the military campaign against the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq and Syria since its army is attacking Kurds who have been crucial to stopping the advance of ISIS.
Turkey's military has carried out numerous airstrikes and ground incursions into Iraqi territory in pursuit of the PKK over the past decades.
The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey since 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.

Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

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