A fifth of Turkey’s 85 million people are Kurds and last election, the main Kurdish party won 10 percent of the vote.
This time, it has given a boost to the opposition, joining the alliance instead of fielding its own candidate.
But it remains to be seen if Kurdish voters will rally behind opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in sufficient numbers.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Diyarbakir, Turkey.
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This time, it has given a boost to the opposition, joining the alliance instead of fielding its own candidate.
But it remains to be seen if Kurdish voters will rally behind opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in sufficient numbers.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Diyarbakir, Turkey.
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