Turkish Parliamentary Elections: The Fall of the “Electoral Caliphate”

... political preferences. This happened despite the HDP’s obvious links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Selahattin Demirtaş’ ineffective statements about the irrelevance of the Turkish Ministry of Religious Affairs. President Recep Erdoğan’s belated rhetoric and the publication of the Quran in Kurdish served only to further convince Kurds that the government was looking to exploit religion to gain additional votes. The Party after Justice and Development www.milli-firka.org HDP’s co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş The ruling party lost votes elsewhere as well. And the finger ...