Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party, the HDP, roared into parliament on the back of a rainbow coalition of alienated progressives and minorities. Now, armed conflict is pulling it back into the messy tangle of Kurdish politics.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2014. Credit: From FlickrOn 3 May, a brawl broke out in Istanbul during a parliamentary commission, between politicians from the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
“It started like a forest fire,” said HDP deputy and honorary president Ertuğrul Kürkçü, who was present at the time.
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