“As fighting between government troops and Kurds in the country’s southeast escalates, the leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party has warned that the country risks being pushed into a serious internecine conflict. The Associated Press reports that Selahattin Demirtas, head of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has accused the government of wanting ‘to create a civil war.’”
Source: The Leader of Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Party Says the Country Is at Risk of Civil War | TIME