Newspaper: Kurds have become a major force in the Turkish Parliament
Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:24
The French-speaking newspaper "L'Orient Le Jour" said on Wednesday that the Kurds have become…
a major force in the Turkish Parliament after they could win 36 parliamentary seats, and to resolve the Kurdish issue has become one of the first Turkish Prime Minister Rajab Tayyip Erdogan's priority.
According to the newspaper, the need for a solution for the Kurdish issue in Turkey has become a matter of urgency, after independent Kurdish candidates backed by the Peace and Democracy Party had obtained 36 seats in the new Turkish parliament compared to 20 seats in the outgoing parliament.
The Kurds stood for elections as independent candidates under the name of Peace ,Struggle and Democracy Bloc, which includes the Kurdish parties and a number of Turkish left-wing parties, because the proportion of the electoral threshold is 10% .
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