2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2016.05.005
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The parliamentary elections in Turkey, November 2015

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“…Around the same time, a tentative truce was observed and fatalities decreased to lowest levels since the early 2000s (Tezcür 2016a, 67). With the end of the ceasefire in July 2015 political violence became the single most important issue in the country (Sözen 2016, 201).…”
Section: Background On Turkeymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Around the same time, a tentative truce was observed and fatalities decreased to lowest levels since the early 2000s (Tezcür 2016a, 67). With the end of the ceasefire in July 2015 political violence became the single most important issue in the country (Sözen 2016, 201).…”
Section: Background On Turkeymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The collapse of the two-year-long ceasefire in July led to an increase in the number of violent events in the country. Political violence became the single most important issue before the November elections (Sözen, 2016: 201). The June and November elections held within a period of six months provide us with an opportunity to more carefully study how support received by parties in the first election influences patterns of violence in the months leading up to the second election.…”
Section: Empirical Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The violence continued after the elections in June until the snap elections in November (for an overview of results, see Sözen 2016). A HDP Law Commission report stated that in August, there were 9 assaults on HDP buildings in cities such as Istanbul, Antalya, Burdur and Adana.…”
Section: Pre-and Post-election Attacks On the Hdpmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The polarising strategy seems to have worked for the AKP, and it returned to power with a greater majority in the November 2015 election. The HDP lost a significant percentage of its vote but still managed to scrape past the threshold (Sözen 2016). Many Kurds abstained from voting or switched support back to the AKP as they viewed as it the best way, regardless of their actual political preferences to bring about an end to violence.…”
Section: Pre-and Post-election Attacks On the Hdpmentioning
confidence: 99%