Turkey ruling party hopes crackdown on Kurds will win back support in heartland


  • World
  • Thursday, 29 Oct 2015

KAYSERI, Turkey (Reuters) - Like other conservative voters in Turkey's pious, Anatolian heartland, 55-year-old Yasin deserted the ruling AK Party in June parliamentary elections, fearing it had gone soft on Kurdish militants after years of peace talks.

Now, he says, he has been wooed back by a renewed crackdown on insurgents of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and plans to once again vote for the AKP in the Nov. 1 election re-run.

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