HIST 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Taksim Gezi Park, Authoritarianism, Islamism
6 Dec 2016
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Trying to move party to more center left. Becoming less secular, more open to muslim women in society. Win in the coasts, istanbul, places that are closer to europe. Don"t actually win that much from kurds. Still a far right party, but hav changed a little. From 2005 has been main ally of govt. Gets the most of its votes from kurds, considered de-facto kurdish party. Consistently win abt 13% of the vote. But are getting most of votes from kurds, and armed wing of liberation movement can cause problems. Akp did not win majority and opposition parties unable to form coalition. So elections repeated and akp won majority. Nationalists decided having strong akp/govt was better. Failure of talks w kurds--hdp votes went to chp. Turkish govt had let syrian refs in (largely kurdish) When kurds wanted to go back and fight, govt did not let them. Mass protests, 31 people killed by police.
