The Rise of a New Left in Turkey?

(Before It's News)

By Juan Cole

The rise of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) made waves in socially conservative Turkey by championing gay rights, women’s rights and leftist causes like labor and a “normalization” of the Turkish majority’s relationship with the Kurdish population.

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