Turkey Politics: Who Wins from Stirring the War against Kurds?

... multi-billion contracts to his cronies, thus losing the effective financial levers. For the sake of more votes the government may as well step up its efforts up to a small victorious war and the state of emergency in the Kurds-dominated southeast of Turkey. To this end, Erdogan and his team decided to block the formation of a coalition government and hold early elections on November 1, 2015, undercutting the HDP support base. So, they chose to make the U-turn that implies demonization of Kurds, fueling the conflicts and association of the HDP with the terrorists, leaving the party out of the Assembly. On July 20, 2015, a Kurdish youths' march in Suruc was ...