Interviewee: Gonul Tol, Director of the Center for Turkish Studies, Middle East Institute
Interviewer:
Zachary Laub, Online Writer/Editor
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS - October 28, 2015
The governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) is appealing to
heightened Turkish nationalism to regain a parliamentary majority in
snap elections on Sunday. But voters frustrated with what they see as
the party's flagging commitment to democracy are likely to vote much the
same as they did in the June general election, says Gonul Tol,
of the Middle East Institute in Washington. The resumption of violence
with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), attacks on the pro-Kurdish
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)'s rallies, and the coalition maneuvering
that is likely all point to an increasingly polarized Turkish political
scene, Tol says. Prospects appear grim for a Kurdish peace process, she
says.
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