Will Kurds take the risk of absence in the Turkish parliament?

Please accept my apologies because of the over-simplification in the title; I should have written the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) instead of ?Kurds,? but it would be too long.

Because not all Kurds in Turkey are voting for the HDP and not only Kurds are voting for it either.

According to Bekir A??rd?r, the head of the Konda polling company, as he wrote for the news web site www.t24.com.tr on Jan. 29, in the local elections on March 30, 2014, more voters of Kurdish origin (around 3.4 million) voted for the ruling Justice and Development Party (APK) than the HDP, which got around 2.6 million.

According to another poll conducted by the HDP itself, it was the presidential elections of Aug. 10, 2014, which mattered. In that election, Selahattin Demirta?, the HDP candidate for presidency, managed to get nearly four million votes, which accounted for around 9.8 percent of the votes cast. 

That was the highest amount that a Kurdish problem-focused party had reached in an election. In the 2014 local elections, candidates from the HDP (or its predecessor, the Peace and Democracy Party) received 6.6 percent of the vote and in the 2011 parliamentary election it was only 5.7 percent.  

The 2014 presidential election result was possible thanks to the HDP widening its voter base by taking a number of minor Turkish leftist parties into their ranks. Some social democrats and liberals who were not happy with the candidate supported by the Republican People?s Party (CHP) ?thanks to personal sympathy with Demirta?- were among them. It was that result which encouraged the HDP to challenge the 10 percent election threshold in Turkey. The highest threshold in the world was imposed during the military rule after the...