palandio
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« on: August 18, 2015, 04:21:34 AM » |
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Istanbul as a whole is not a hipster metropolis. In fact its demographics (and the demographics of other fast-growing cities like Konya) are shaped to a large degree by internal migrants from rural areas that are now living mostly in the relatively new quarters on the city's margins for nine or ten months of a year. Most of these migrants vote AKP like their cousins that remain in the Anatolian village for the whole year.
On the other hand a relevant part of these internal migrants is Kurdish. Many (probably most) of them vote HDP and they make up a big part of the HDP's support base in Istanbul.
The HDP to some degree resembles EH Bildu imho. Very leftist and progressivist program, allegations of ties to separatist terrorists etc. On the other hand EH Bildu hasn't yet tried to court left-wing voters outside of its claimed territory.
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