Loading ...Turkey launches heaviest air strikes yet on PKK, stoking Kurdish ire
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/29/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-idUSKCN0Q30OF20150729
From ZH:
The pro-Kurdish HDP party won 13 percent of the vote in a June 7 poll, helping to deprive the AKP Erdogan founded of a majority in parliament for the first time since 2002.
Many Kurds believe that by reviving conflict with the PKK, Erdogan seeks to undermine support for the HDP ahead of a possible early election. That poll – so runs the argument – could then provide him with the majority he seeks to change the constitution and increase his powers.
“He is trying to achieve the result he failed to in the June 7 election in a political coup. That’s the real aim of the steps taken now,” the PKK said in an e-mailed statement.