According to initial ruling AKP party evaluations, 3 percentage points of "yes" votes came from the ultra-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), while 1.5 percentage points came from pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) voters.
"Around 3 percentage points [of the total] came from MHP [voters] and 1.5 percentage points came from [Peoples’ Democratic Party] voters. Among our voters there was a relaxation mood stemming from reluctance or opposition toward the package," a senior government source told daily Hürriyet.
"It looks like the situation we saw in the polls was reflected in the referendum results. ‘No’ votes increase in parallel with the increase in education level and with voters from urban areas. We couldn’t obtain the results we wanted among young new voters," the source also said.
HDP DEPUTY: "KURDS HAVE RESCUED ERDOĞAN, AGAIN"
Altan Tan, Islamist deputy from HDP said that "the alliance that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formed with the MHP has collapsed, and interestingly the Kurds have rescued Erdoğan once again. Therefore, Dear Mr President Tayyip Erdoğan should make a revaluation and pay the duty of loyalty to the Kurds."
During a TV interview on April 17, Tan respond the question regarding whether the referendum results would be different if the HDP co-chairs and deputies were not under arrest that of course, it would. This table would change when 500-600 thousand votes moved. When all these are taken into consideration, Mr Erdoğan should not make an alliance with the Nationalist Movement Party, but should take a step towards a democratic Turkey with the HDP, Kurds, liberals and social democrats in Turkey."
'AN ALLIANCE OF THE AKP AND THE KURDS WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF TURKEY'
Orhan Miroğlu, a Kurdish deputy from AKP said that they did not benefit from the alliance with the ultra-nationalist MHP in the presidential referendum.
Evaluated the referendum results in his hometown Mardin, Miroğlu said that the Kurdish voters were determinative in this referendum, but it is clear to see that the alliance between the AKP and MHP could not form a strong bloc in the field.
Saying that the Kurdish question is a matter of democracy and equalisation, and the Kurds continue to support the AKP as long as they feel this political representation in their lives, Miroğlu added that ‘‘a new era is beginning for all of us, a period is beginning for Turkey. This period is a constituent period, and with the referendum, the Kurds have said that ‘yes, we are also in this process’. An alliance of the AKP and the Kurds would be in favour of Turkey. With such an alliance, everyone wins. The Turkish people win, the Kurdish people win, and Turkey wins. As we have clearly seen in the elections, it is not possible to talk about a political stability in Turkey when this alliance is shaken, suffered and weak."
