Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's alliance with Hüda-Par, a radical Kurdish Islamist party with a troubled past, to win the presidential election is worrying. Many are wondering how much of their Islamist agenda the government will take over as Erdogan enters his third decade in power.
Women are afraid to vote for the opposition and fear the crackdown will be severe against opposition supporters, especially the Kurds. The party's roots go back to Hezbollah, a Sunni Kurdish group that no longer exists, with no connection to its Lebanese namesake. There has been a lot of murder, persecution, torture, especially against women.