Demirtaş exerts the utmost effort to prevent peace. It is unfortunate that a young politician who raised hopes has fallen into such mean opportunism and ethical weakness in such a short amount of time.
This article has been penned to make sure that what you did, said and wrote just hours or minutes after the biggest massacre in Republican history should not be erased and forgotten. So that your raving, ravenous hatred may forever be inscribed in memory.
While the PKK has arrived at a crossroads, sadly, the HDP has kept leaning so heavily on Kandil that it somehow cannot bring itself to admit this truth.
On the way to the November elections, the AKP appears to have largely overcome this last candidates’ lists problem. But all the other items point to the need for a serious self-criticism that is long overdue.
Hopefully the June elections will have conveyed the following simple lesson to the AKP faithful: If they remain as no more than a mediocre sort of party, their vote is likely to be limited to the 35-40 percent interval for a few more years before probably falling yet again. But if the party can renew itself and once more embrace society-wide differences to come up yet again with a realistic and persuasive vision for the future, it can initially bounce back to 45-50 and subsequently even above 55 percent.