Turkey's politics has been toxic recently. The recent elections have finally brought a fresh air.
The parliamentary majority of Mr. Erdogan's party had been degraded and a new liberal party, HDP, entered the parliament upon obtaining 80 among 550 seats.
As the fourth largest party in Turkey, HDP supports secularism, democratic socialism, anti-capitalism, environmentalism, direct democracy, minority rights, LGBT rights, feminism, and anti-nationalism. It aims to represent various ethnic minorities within Turkey, of which the Kurds are the most prominent group.
It is paradoxical in some way since the party's electoral base lies in the conservative East of the country.
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