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Kaan Vural, Istanbul I'm voting for the HDP because, in spite of the fearmongering rhetoric surrounding the nature of its relationship with the PKK, it and its leader Selahattin Demirtaş have convinced me that they represent the kind of progressive, inclusive government I want to see in Turkey.

But Masoud Barzani, head of the Iraqi Kurds' semi-independent enclave, insists that the claims are real and has angrily called for an immediate end to the Turkish offensive.America, which has backed Turkey in its battle against the PKK (it shares satellite intelligence on the rebels), is getting nervous.

He adds that though he does not like the PKK, it is hypocritical of "the Americans and Europeans to label them as 'terrorists'" when they are fighting Isis in Syria and Iraq.

As Nato meets today to discuss Turkey's military campaign against Isis and the PKK, it will have to consider whether it wants to be sucked into Turkey's toxic domestic politics.

Yet with the purges now spreading to democratically elected mayors, mostly affecting those from the Kurdish People's Democratic party (HDP) suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), it has gone far beyond those who may have had a role in the putsch.

As well as high-level talks with the PKK, it included Kurdish-language education, restoring Kurdish place names and more freedom to use Kurdish in election campaigns.

Allegedly it's nonsense this amounts to EU backing for a Kurdish state carved away from Turkey.Now, just as the European Commission was at last ready to finger it for its past undoubted terrorism, the PKK said it had "fulfilled its mission" and been dissolved; its members had regrouped, with new aims, as the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress.

Blame was directed against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK), but it denied responsibility.

And what of the government's reforms, which Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister promised in "a matter of weeks" (they may come this weekend)?In a statement on September 9th peppered with accusations of treachery against Mr Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AK) party, the PKK said it was halting the withdrawal of fighters from Turkey to Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

The PKK says it needs a gesture from the government.In this section Rosier scenarios Through the looking glass Enter Erna Inch by inch Nothing to lose but their chains A post-war continent ReprintsThe loudest demand is for Kurdish-language education in state-run schools.

The government in Ankara sees the Syrian Kurdish fighters across the border in Kobane as linked to the PKK, which it views as a terrorist organisation.