Controversies during the Turkish general election, November

These days, the Turkish parliament has repeatedly become the scene of physical fights, reflecting what a beautifully harmonious nation we are. Fists and feet fly through the air when the heated words of elected deputies are not enough to let off their steam. 

Turkey missed a great opportunity in the period between 2010 and 2015, as it failed to resolve the Kurdish question through dialogue and peaceful means and also failed to rewrite the new civilian constitution with the participation of all four political parties. Years-long political efforts on these two major projects were rendered futile because of the sharp ideological differences between the

Cracks have emerged within the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over a decision to lend support to a government proposal on a provisional change in the constitution that would allow parliament to lift the immunities of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers and others for one time only.

Selahattin Demirta?, the co-chair of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has repeatedly condemned a suicide car bomb attack that killed at least 37 people in Turkey's capital Ankara on March 13.

The ongoing dispute between the Turkish government and the Kurdish-problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has shown no sign of slowing down, with the former categorically dismissing the latter's charges over lack of medical services provided to 28 civilians stranded in the basement of a building in the Cizre district of southeastern ??rnak province as "speculation."

An Ankara court sentenced five defendants to prison on Jan. 25 in a case regarding the attack targeting Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Ankara on Sept. 8, 2015, but suspended the sentence.

The Turkish government is working on a new legal arrangement paving the way for the transfer of authorities from local mayors to "trustees" if crimes related to terrorism are committed by the former.

Turkish police detained senior local officials from the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Jan. 8 in a raid on one of its Istanbul offices, party officials have said, just days after President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said he backed legal action against its members. 

A recent call for self-governance supported by their party was a key to a substantial unification of Turkey's peoples, a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has argued, defending self-governance for the entire country, not only for southeastern Anatolia. 

Recent reports from Ankara indicated that Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu's Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government has started to develop concerns regarding the sustainability of its security policy against the "ditches and  barricades" campaign of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).