Will voters reject Turkey’s ‘precious loneliness’?

Parliamentary elections on June 7 could signal a shift in Turkey’s foreign policy; Islamic State’s radicalization campaign extends to Iraqi Kurdistan; Iran not backing down in Syria; Soleimani promises "surprise" in battle against Islamic State.
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), speaks as his supporters wave Kurdish (L) and Turkish national (R) flags in the background, during an election rally for Turkey's June 7 parliamentary election, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 6, 2015. Turkey's Kurdish-rooted opposition party, which could scupper Tayyip Erdogan's ambitions for sweeping new powers, accused the President on Saturday of a lack of respect for supporters killed in a bomb attack in an election rally an
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, speaks as his supporters wave Kurdish (L) and Turkish national (R) flags in the background, during an election rally for Turkey's June 7 parliamentary election, in Istanbul, June 6, 2015. - REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Beginning of end of Erdogan era?

Although Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold on to the presidency whatever the outcome of the June 7 elections for Turkey’s General National Assembly, or parliament, a strong showing by the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) could signal the beginning of a shift away from Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party’s (AKP), including its sectarian and divisive foreign policy since the start of the Arab Spring in 2011.

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