Communal Violence and Ethnic Polarisation before and after the 2015 Elections in Turkey: Attacks against the HDP and the Kurdish Population

Francis O'Connor; Bahar Baser

doi:10.1080/14683857.2018.1451035

Communal Violence and Ethnic Polarisation before and after the 2015 Elections in Turkey: Attacks against the HDP and the Kurdish Population

Francis O'Connor
, Bahar Baser

Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

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Abstract

Given its duration and intensity, the decades-old civil war in Turkey between the Turkish state and the PKK has resulted in relatively low levels of lethal inter-communal conflict between Kurdish and Turkish populations. However, around the June 2015 elections an unprecedented wave of systematic anti-Kurdish violence swept across western Turkey. The paper will assess these events in relation to literature on communal riots and electoral violence. It will consider the impact of state led anti-Kurdish discourse and the growth of the HDP, as potential factors that aggravated the dormant tensions and laid the groundwork for wide-spread inter-communal violence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	53-72
Number of pages	20
Journal	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
Volume	18
Issue number	1
Early online date	28 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2018.1451035
Publication status	Published - 2018

Bibliographical note

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies on 28th Mar 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14683857.2018.1451035

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Keywords

HDP
communal violence
Turkey
Kurdish Question
electoral violence

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Communal Violence and Ethnic Polarisation before and after the 2015 Elections in Turkey: Attacks against the HDP and the Kurdish Population

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