Diyarbakir, Turkey, November, 2016. Outside the courthouse, supporters wait where HDP co-leader Selahattin Demirtas has been detained.Depo Photos/ABACA/Press Agenc. All rights reserved. The July 15 coup attempt was a nightmare. Kurds remember the terrible army coups in Turkey. After the army coups, Kurdish people were imprisoned, sustained, killed and tortured. Kurds are against army coups. By night-time on 15 July, 2016, the pro-Kurdish party, HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) had immediately condemned the coup attempt.
Kurds thought that after the coup attempt, there may be a return to the peace process.
The reasons behind that surmise were:
