Turkey’s Kurds: Kingmakers in the upcoming elections?

The HDP, representing the On a political scene marked since 2018 by two alliances—on the one hand, the AKP-MHP Kurdish political People’s Alliance, on the other, the “Table of Six” (CHP, IYI, Deva, Gelecek, Saadet, Demokrat) movement, has or National Alliance, the HDP, representing the Kurdish political movement, has been the been the kingmaker. [...] 4 Turkey’s Kurds: Kingmakers in the upcoming elections? The rapid urbanization of the Kurdish populations, along with rising levels of education, mainly among the younger generations, is gradually subverting the power of the traditional The rapid urbanization of structures, mainly the traditional large families under the patriarchal system as well as the the Kurdish traditional networks and power. [...] The Together with the urbanization and secularization/modernization dynamics, the emergence strengthening of Kurdish middle and upper-middle classes—mainly in Diyarbakır and other urban centers and reshaping of in the Southeast—is also determining the Kurds’ perceptions of politics and stance towards the Kurdish middle classes political parties. [...] The CHP and banking on the the Iyi Parti will not solve this issue; if it will be solved, it will be Erdoğan once again who will closure of the do it.” Roj Girasun told Karar TV in June 2022, that even if “there is no sign of Erdoğan trying HDP exposing to find a solution to the Kurdish issue… the AKP still has the advantage as the only party to the Opposition's disunity on the date which has genu. [...] The powerful undercurrents of modernization and secularization in both the Kurdish and Turkish elements of society, combined with the AKP’s political choice to ally itself with the MHP, have created a deepening gap between the Kurds and the AKP.