This is how an AK Party candidate became mayor in Cukurca — a district where the Turkish army has suffered the highest number of casualties from PKK terror attacks
After passing through several military checkpoints and driving over a steep road that hugs the hills of eastern Turkey's Hakkari province, where the PKK has conducted several terror strikes against Turkish soldiers in the past three decades, the first sight of Cukurca district appears in the form of a toll post, where cars are stopped, passengers subjected to identity checks and then allowed to proceed.
“This is the place where most casualties have happened. 680 martyrs except for [Kurdish-dominated paramilitary] village guards,” said Temel Ayca, the district governor, while speaking withIndeed, 680 deaths correspond to nearly one-tenth of Turkey’s total army casualties since 1984, when the PKK group launched its first attack in Semdinli, a district of Hakkari, neighbouring Cukurca.
The AK Party made similar gains in other far off districts like Semdinli, Beytussebab, Uludere and Sirnak, where PKK attacks have been more common than any other location. “People with feudal origins have constantly become candidates. Besides them, others like me, who have been alienated from the political process, have fallen off the map,” Dundar said, at a local restaurant that used to be an old, dilapidated house before the government trustee turned it around.
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