How Turkey's New Government Can Advance Peace in the Region
Category: WORLDPOST
VIENNA -- The success of the mainly Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party in capturing 13 percent of the vote in the recent election -- a total well above the party's core constituency -- should boost the Kurds' confidence and ease the way ahead in the peace process. But the far-right Nationalist Movement Party performed strongly in the election, capturing 16 percent of the vote, probably owing largely to popular opposition to the opening to the Kurds.
By Carl Bildt, ContributorFormer Swedish Foreign Minister and Prime Minister; Chairman, ..., 2015-06-16