According to the latest survey by Konda research center, Kurds composed 12 percent of the masses protesting against the coup attempt on the streets. Taking into account that Kurds form mostly 20 percent of the population, this is an incredibly high percentage.

It is this common fate which also made HDP, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, the first political party declaring an anti-coup statement in Turkey and led Selahattin Demirtaş, the HDP co-chair, to call for democracy rallies around the country.