Following the inconclusive parliamentary elections of this past June, Turkey is once again gearing up for elections on November 1. Conditions under which elections will be held have changed dramatically because of the resumption of the conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, and the Turkish state. Nonetheless, in these elections as it was the case in the previous one, the Kurds and specifically the Peoples’ Democracy Party, HDP, will once again be the focus of much attention. President Erdogan clearly wants his former party, the AKP, to win a parliamentary majority and the HDP constitutes the only roadblock. Our panel will examine the broad spectrum of the revival of the Kurdish question in Turkey and its ramifications for its domestic and foreign policies.
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