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boils over. It is another source of potential violence for the period ahead.
Political assassinations, terror attacks, some other bloody occurrences (as seen in the June-November 2015 period), the closure of the HDP (the HDP has reserve parties, this move would not make sense), the seizure of the Istanbul Municipality and the jailing/banning from politics of Istanbul’s popular CHP mayor Ekrem Imamoglu are also among options for the period ahead that can in no way be ruled out.
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