Communal violence and ethnic polarization before and after the 2015 elections in Turkey: attacks against the HDP and the Kurdish population

@article{OConnor2018CommunalVA,  title={Communal violence and ethnic polarization before and after the 2015 elections in Turkey: attacks against the HDP and the Kurdish population},  author={Francis O’Connor and Bahar Başer},  journal={Southeast European and Black Sea Studies},  year={2018},  volume={18},  pages={53 - 72},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:158516592}}
Abstract Given its duration and intensity, the decades-old civil war in Turkey between the Turkish state and the PKK has resulted in relatively low levels of lethal inter-communal conflict between Kurdish and Turkish populations. However, around the June 2015 elections an unprecedented wave of systematic anti-Kurdish violence swept across western Turkey. The paper will assess these events in relation to literature on communal riots and electoral violence. It will consider the impact of state… 

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