Cengiz Gunes is MSCA Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany. He has published several books on Kurdish politics and history as well as articles on Kurdish and Turkish politics for journals such as the New Left Review, Ethnopolitics, and the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

05.09.2023

• Cengiz Gunes

The Kurdish Left Could Turn the Tide Against Erdoğan’s Authoritarian Rule

Ever since the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party made a breakthrough in Turkish politics, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tried to hound it out of existence through repression. The party’s supporters could tip the balance against Erdoğan in Sunday’s election.