Judgement jeopardises political peace

The ban on the Kurdish DTP could lead to political conflict and boost the nationalist forces, the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung fears: "You don't need to be psychic to predict that this questionable decision in terms of democratic policy will intensify the political tensions. At any rate the conditions for implementing the Kurdish policy Erdoğan had promoted have worsened. The ruling gives the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party], which argues that Ankara is not serious about reconciliation, another trump card. The retrogressive forces within the Kemalist and nationalist parties who consider any move towards the Kurds as an attack on national unity can also count themselves as winners. These circles are likely to be impervious to the EU's foreseeable criticism of the Ankara ruling." 

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