Mehmet Kurt

The support from the Kurdish Islamist party Hüda-Par for the shift to an executive presidential system in Turkey's April 16 referendum was likely a small but significant factor behind the final narrow "Yes" result.

Many observers assume that Turkey's Kurdish question is limited to the war between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). For over three decades that conflict has defined the issue, causing the deaths of over 40,000 people.