Ethnicity and Party Politics in Turkey by Berna Öney

Author:Berna Öney [Öney, Berna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9780429627941
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-12T03:45:31+00:00

Table 4.1 Support (percent) in Kurdish majority provinces for Kurdish candidates and the AKP

The entrance of the MHP to parliament as a result of the 2007 elections and the DTP’s vote share increase in the 2009 local elections can be taken as signs that the solid ground of the AKP’s dominance has been shaken. From this perspective, the announcement of the Kurdish opening process in August 2009 was a move to win back the votes that the AKP lost both to MHP and the DTP.

With this move, to ensure its dominance, the AKP employed the median voter strategy on the ethnic dimension. The party could not change its position on the secular-Islamist dimension, where the party’s basic constituency was located; so, for garnering more votes the best strategy seemed to be aiming at both the Kurdish and Turkish nationalists’ moderates. In this sense, contrary to the main argument that the Kurdish opening process targeted the Kurdish nationalists’ votes, I think this process was initiated with the aim to win over the votes of both parties’ (MHP and BDP) swing voters.

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