Many Kurdish voters in Turkey still remember an incident that occurred during Selahattin Demirtas' election campaign back in 2014. Demirtas' tour bus was rolling along slowly and a young paper collector was walking alongside. "Selahattin Baskan, my president Selahattin!," the young man called out, smiling. The incident became a symbol of the hopes that young Kurds in Turkey placed in Demirtas, head of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, or HDP, after decades of tensions between Kurdish