The Turkish government has stepped up another round of pressure on the country's Kurds and has jailed some members of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and its representatives in the Turkish parliament under the pretext of staging protests against Turkey attack on the Syrian city of Kobani a few years ago.

Alan Makovski, a former US State Department analyst on Turkey affairs and a researcher at the Center for American Progress, told Politico about the growing pressure on Kurds in Turkey that “he stressed that putting pressure on the Kurds is a personal, political and strategic issue for Erdogan.

Makovsky added: "Erdogan needs an alliance with Turkish nationalist parties and can not replace the pressure on the Kurds with anything else to win the hearts of the nationalists."

He stressed that the background of all pressure on the Kurds in Turkey is the fear of Kurdish separatism in this country.

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