Turkey’s repeat elections in November are unlikely to ease the country’s political tensions

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Publication Date 13/10/2015
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Turkey will hold elections on 1 November 2015, with the campaign being marred by a bomb attack during a political rally in Ankara on 10 October 2015 which killed almost 100 people. Sezin Öney writes that the election, which follows an earlier election in June that failed to produce a majority for any one party, is unlikely to ease growing political tensions in the country. She argues that Turkish society is now increasingly polarised over the influence of Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as well as the issue of the country’s Kurdish population, following a resumption of hostilities between Turkey’s security forces and the Kurdish PKK group since July.

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