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The AK Party's successful balanced policy opening Turkey's door to all regardless of their nationality or religion revives Turkish-EU relations

At this point in time, when all their calculations have misfired, and both military defeat and political isolation seem inevitable, Demirtaş is looking for a way out by getting the HDP banned. Indeed, if one is to go by the letter of the law, both his personal statements and the decisions adopted by the DTK decisions are more than enough to get both legal Kurdish parties banned several times over. But this is precisely what he wants; he is trying to extricate a new victimhood, hence a new self-righteousness and perhaps even a social uprising from the shambles. The smart policy is not to give him this opportunity. “Laissez dire, laissez parler” (let him talk, let them say whatever they want). Read this last virtually insane provocation correctly, and abandon the PKK and the HDP to their deepening solitude.

News and comments to the effect that President Erdoğan has embraced Hitler’s Germany as a positive example of the presidential system embody all aspects of the “opposition through verbal engineering” syndrome.

 Etyen Mahçupyan  The identification of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) solely with its Islamist label made it difficult to grasp the party's view...

This time around, the PKK believes that Syria’s dissolution and the internationalization of the Syrian crisis provides it with a historical opportunity that may never be found again. Hence it is, that it has completely abandoned any vision of an in-Turkey solution, instead orienting itself much more emphatically towards a “Bakur-Rojava” (north-south) state formation project. The HDP has also been persuaded to this plan as never before, brought into line, bullied into obedience, and forced to burn all its bridges by adopting a language of violence that has put paid to all democratic possibilities once and for all.