Turkish opposition courts Kurds in trip to Erbil
The Republican People’s Party, Turkey’s main opposition party, has sent a senior delegation to Iraq's Kurdistan Region, perhaps because popular elections have become difficult to win without Kurdish votes.
Turkey’s main opposition party has embarked on an unprecedented tour to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in a bid to shed its anti-Kurdish image in the run-up to nationwide presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in 2023.
Senior figures from the pro-secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) were received at the highest level in the Kurdistan Regional Government, meeting in turn with Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (KDP), Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and President Nechirvan Barzani.
KRG sources described the encounters as cordial and said the delegation had voiced its support for a democratic solution to Turkey’s Kurdish problem with a consensus forged in the parliament for addressing the Kurds’ demands for greater autonomy.
They expressed “contrition at not having made the journey far earlier,” one of the sources told Al-Monitor.
