Turkish Election Board Annuls Pro-Kurdish Mayoral Candidate's Win

A pro-Kurdish party candidate who came first in the mayoral race in an eastern Turkish city was stripped of his victory Tuesday by the regional electoral commission, his party said. Read More

Pro-Kurdish party challenges election outcomes in eastern Turkey

DEM Party supporters demonstrate after the party’s candidate in Sunday’s municipal elections was ... people of Van”. The Turkish state has cracked down on the pro-Kurdish political movement ... Read More

Turkey’s election authority reinstates pro-Kurdish mayoral election winner

Election authority reverses ejection of Kurdish winner of mayoral race in city of Van in eastern Turkey. Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) take part in a ... Read More

Turkey Replaces Kurdish Mayor With Government Candidate Two Days After Vote

Turkey Replaces Kurdish Mayor With Government Candidate Two Days After Vote ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish ... accuses the pro-Kurdish party of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant ... Read More

Pro-Kurdish party appeals to Turkish electoral board over Van mayor decision

ERBIL, Kurdistan ... election board to annul a decision by its Van branch that prevents the party’s candidate in the city to take up his role as mayor despite having won Sunday’s local elections. Read More

Stakes are high for Turkish president, opposition in local elections

The elections come less than a year after Turkish ... the 2019 election, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP, which is using a new name, DEM Party) did not announce a candidate ... Read More

Turkish election board annuls pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate's win

A pro-Kurdish party candidate ... election. He had been elected to parliament on the HDP (now DEM) ticket in 2015 and arrested in 2016 with a dozen other deputies after criticising the Turkish ... Read More

Pro-Kurdish party challenges election outcomes in eastern Turkey

ISTANBUL, April 2 (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party ... DEM candidate on 41%, or 15,553 votes. The justice ministry also referred a query about DEM's Sirnak claims to local election ... Read More

Turkish election board annuls pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate’s win

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Turkey's overturning the election of a pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate triggered ... a demonstration in eastern city Van, where the DEM party said its candidate in Sunday's municipal ... Read More

Turkish Election Board Annuls Pro-Kurdish Mayoral Candidate's Win

Turkey's overturning the election of a pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate ... where the DEM party said its candidate in Sunday's municipal elections was ruled ineligible at the last minute, while ... Read More