YEREVAN. – The Kurds and Turkey’s pro-Kurdish “Peoples’ Democratic Party” (HDP) have become the target of the Turkish authorities in the forthcoming parliamentary election in the country.

Director of the Institute of Orientology of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, turkologist Ruben Safrastyan, told the above-said to Armenian News-NEWS.am reflecting on Sunday’s election in Turkey.

“The Turkish authorities continue to spread fear and attempt to form an image of enemy out of the Kurds,” Safrastyan noted. “It cannot be ruled out that they will reach their objective.

“The ruling party [i.e. the Justice and Development Party (AKP)] considers the Peoples’ Democratic Party dangerous for itself [i.e. the AKP], and [therefore] it wants to prevent it [i.e. the HDP] from entering the [Turkish] Parliament; that’s why the anti-Kurdish campaign is put into operation.”

The AKP had failed to form a coalition government after the regular parliamentary voting on June 7, and therefore the PM had returned the mandate to form a government back to the President of Turkey. But no government was able to be formed, and as a result, a snap parliamentary election was set for Sunday, November 1, in the country.