The largest pro-Kurdish party has refrained from nominating its own presidential candidate, thereby strengthening Erdogan’s opponents. Meanwhile, the President is having trouble finding allies.
The success of the Turkish opposition in the local elections four years ago would not have been possible without Kurdish support . The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the most important pro-Kurdish party in Turkey, did not run with its own candidates in the big cities at the time. Instead, she called on her estimated six million supporters to vote for the opposition alliance.
Source: NZZ