Erdogan’s cynical game: is Turkey creeping toward civil war?

Spiegel ^ | 02 August 2015 | Maximilian Popp and Christoph Reuter report for Spiegel Online:

[Lorianne]

27-year-old graphic designer from the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey. Sometimes she asks herself whether that night in June, when the pro-Kurdish party HDP won seats in the Turkish parliament thanks in part to Turkish voters, was only a beautiful, ephemeral dream?

Bulut spent several nervous months with Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the HDP She applauded at his speeches, and convinced friends and relatives to support the young party leader, who not only promised but also embodied change in Turkish politics. At school and later at university, Bulut saw how friends who had advocated for more rights for Kurds, were arrested as suspected terrorists. She hoped that the HDP's success in the June 7 election would help Turkey become a peaceful, pluralistic country.

[PGalt]

A very interesting article. Thanks for posting.

[hosepipe]

Heck.... the world is creeping toward.. World War III...

Evil factions in pretty much EVERY country.. is afoote’...
Whats happening in the U.S... “don’t ask”.. the answer is scary..

All it needs................ “ IS A SPARK “...

[tanuki]

Thanks for posting. Yet another foreign policy “triumph” detailed. The next few years are going to be a rough ride.

[Kozak]

Neo Ottomans vs PKK terrorists. A pox on both.