The Kurdish election tour for Prime Minister Erdoðan has been a cold shower. Certainly, even if he did not publicly state his worries, he was not expecting a very warm welcome, but what he was met with amount to little more than a complete fiasco. Not only the squares were unequivocally empty but even the few who actually attended the meetings were highly critical of the Prime Minister and his government.

Erdoðan tried to warm up the atmosphere with speeches that in the end simply repeated themselves with only few adjustments to suit better one place or another. The result was of a monochord long patronising statement. Empty to the best bordering on the ridiculous. Certainly it was a speech out of touch, distant from the people and their real problems and demands. The worst speech to deliver for a politician in search of consensus.

So much for his denial of a Kurdish Question (he has been repeating the sentence like a mantra, "there is no Kurdish question") the very, central issue debated in this election campaign has been the Kurdish Question. Erdoðan clearly hoped to deny the existence of the Kurds by simply putting thousands of them in prison. In this he succeeded to to beat - for worse - his predecessor, Tansu Ciller. But no matter how hard he tried, and he did tried hard (in 2010 over 16 thousand people have been detained, while in the first four and a half months of 2011 the number of detained people has reached 5 thousands), he could not possibly put everybody in jail. So the Kurds not only showed that they existed but also made clear that they have and they want their rights and demands to be taken seriously.

Interestingly enough the president of the main opposition party, the CHP (Republican People's Party), Kemal Kýlýçdaroðlu, despite the fact that he had always previously opposed the idea of local government's autonomy (something well defined in the BDP programme, as Democratic Autonomy), in this election campaign, especially in his Kurdish areas tour, has pledged to grant autonomy to local governments during a speech in the predominantly Kurdish province of Hakkari on Monday as part of his election campaign. “We will give local governments autonomy, as is the case in Europe,” he said. Of course, it could be rightly argued that this is propaganda stuff. And it certainly is. Indeed independent candidate for Diyarbakir and former MP, Leyla Zana immediately seized the opportunity and asked Kýlýçdaroðlu to make facts follow words. There is no doubt though that the CHP played better than the ruling AK Party in the Kurdish region. Of course Kurdish people will not get fooled, but the fact that the CHP has chosen not to play the iron fist card indicates that its attitude towards the Kurdish and the Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block MP in the Parliament will be different from before. This also confirms that the CHP knows the independent candidates are going to get a significant number of seats. Something the Prime Minister has conveniently decided to ignore. But it will hit back on him.

The other interesting development in the last few days have been this 'unusual defection' by member of the right wing MHP (Nationalist Movement Party). The MHP has been in turmoil since (like the CHP before it) a sex scandal has been revealed and shown to the world. Power of technologies: lately politicians seem to have had their political career demolished by hidden camera in the bedroom. Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi leads the way on the issue.

Anyway as the story goes, the entire Baþkale MHP branch resigned and joined the BDP. Ömer Bozkurt, the head of the branch, located in the eastern province of Van, said as he announced the resignations that they had quit the MHP because they had received no support from the party. Bozkurt and others paid a visit to the election office of Kemal Aktaþ, an independent deputy supported by the BDP in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Speaking to reporters at the office, Bozkurt said they will support the BDP from now on. “I want to be with my people rather than the parties of the status quo. We will continue with the BDP from now on,” he said.

So much for something (namely the Kurdish Question) that allegedly does not exist. Kurds are simply dominating the political scene. And further more. Culturally speaking, the campaign about the right to education in one owns mother language has been joined by thousands of students. And it is no coincidence that in the past week students have become the target of repression. The cultural proposal of Kurdish organisations like MKM (Mesopotamia Cultural Centre) as well as the municipalities run by Kurds, has is translation into practice in the many literature and film festivals. Some of which are running in these days.

And then there is the civil disobedience initiative. The world media talk a lot about tents put up by youngsters in the Northern African countries during the so called Arab Spring Rebellions and recently they have focused on the tents put up by the "indignados" (the young people protesting in Spain) in Madrid and Barcelona. Little attention has been paid to the Democratic Solution Tents put up - and brutally repressed - by the Kurdish people in many cities, included Istanbul.

The ferment of the Kurdish society is evident to anyone wants to look into it. Clearly the Turkish Prime Minister does not.

But he can't prevented. No matter how many people he will put in prison.