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    Turkey election: Does Kurdish leader jailed as 'terrorist' hold the key?

    Jun 22, 2018 4 minutes
    Under tight Turkish police security, supporters of the opposition, mainly the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, dance as they campaigned this month in Istanbul for their presidential candidate, Selahattin Demirtaş. He has been imprisoned and frequently accused of being a 'terrorist' by ruling-party officials.

    Even by Turkey’s high standards of political theater, the scene inside Edirne prison was a spectacle.

    State broadcaster TRT set up a makeshift studio so that imprisoned Kurdish presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş could make a 10-minute address to the nation, as allotted by election law.

    Turks vote Sunday in a landmark election that will determine whether 16 years of rule by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) will continue.

    Polls show that in the presidential race, Turkey’s authoritarian leader is vulnerable like never before and could be forced into a second-round runoff without a guaranteed victory.

    And in the concurrent parliamentary vote, the AKP could lose its majority – ironically because of the small, pro-Kurdish party led

    Potential kingmakerIntimidation tacticsThe terrorist label

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