LOCAL ELECTIONS 2024

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• Provincial Election Board accepts DEM Party objection to refusal of Iğdır and Hoşhaber candidates 

  The objection application made to the Provincial Election Board by DEM Party Îdir Municipality and Hoşhaber co-mayor candidates was accepted.
• Tülay Hatimoğulları calls for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan 

  DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları demanded the immediate release of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan at a public meeting organized in Çınar district of Amed (Diyarbakır).
• Iğdır District Election Committee rejects two DEM candidates 

  The Iğdır District Election Committee has rejected the candidacy of Mehmet Nuri Güneş for the post of co-mayor and Emine Yöndem Kartal for the municipality of Xoşxeber.
• Co-mayor candidate Önkol: DEM Party will rebuild Sur with its people 

  Gulan Fatma Önkol, co-mayor candidate for Sur, said that "the DEM Party will rebuild Sur with its people."
• DEM youngest co-mayor candidate is 21-year-old Aşan Ateş in Konakkuran 

  21-year-old Aşan Ateş and Agit Çetin are running as candidates for the DEM party in the local elections in the northern Kurdish community of Konakkuran.
• Orhan: We will make Sûr a people's municipality again 

  Adnan Orhan, DEM Party Sur Municipality co-mayor candidate, said: "We will put an end to the plunder of trustees. We will make all our decisions with our people."
• DBP Co-Chair: We are Kurds and we will live as Kurds 

  DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır attended the candidate presentation and office opening in Patnos. "We are Kurds and we will live as Kurds," Bayındır said, adding, "This is not a party issue, this is a matter of freedom."
• Kum: DEM will make Iğdır a real people's municipality 

  Necla Kum, one of the DEM Party Iğdır municipality co-mayor candidates, said that they will offer real municipality services to the people.
• DEM Party Co-Chairs start election campaign tour in Kurdistan 

  DEM Party co-chairs Tuncer Bakırhan and Tülay Hatimoğulları have started their month-long campaign tour in eastern Turkey, calling for an end to the trustee administration of Kurdish municipalities in the local elections in March.
• DEM Party starts election campaign in Batman 

  The DEM Party started the election campaign in Batman.
• DEM Party nominates co-mayoral candidates in three more western cities 

  The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) decided to enter the elections with its own candidates in the center and all districts of İzmir, Muğla and Balıkesir provinces in western Turkey.
• Fascists in Kulu remove flags from DEM Party election office 

  The party flags hanging on DEM Party's Kulu election office were removed by fascists.
• DEM Party releases song to be used during local election campaign 

  People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) released the song to be used during the campaign leading to the local elections to be held on 31 March.
• DEM Party announces its women's local elections' manifesto 

  The DEM Party announced its women's local elections' manifesto, addressing issues such as ecology, women's cooperatives, barrier-free life, political academies and LGBTI+ people.
• DEM Party election office opened in Birecik: The reign will end and people will rule 

  The DEM Party's election office opening in Birecik district turned into a rally. "The reign will end, and the people will rule the municipality" was the message highlighted in the speeches.
• DEM Party presents new song women will use in local election campaign 

  The DEM Party presented the new song that women will use during the next local election campaign.
• DEM Party announces co-mayoral candidates for 14 more provinces 

  The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party announced the co-mayoral candidates for 14 provinces for the 31 March local elections.
• Murat Çepni: DEM Party is not a sum of votes, it is a freedom movement 

  The DEM Party Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor candidate Murat Çepni said that the DEM Party is not a sum of votes, it is a freedom movement.
• Meral Danış Beştaş: We demand the vote of all people living in Istanbul 

  DEM Party Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor candidate Meral Danış Beştaş said: "We want to win, to make people gain. We set out to win."
• DEM Party announces co-mayoral candidates for 16 metropolises, 40 provinces and 3 districts 

  Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party announced the co-mayoral candidates for 16 metropolises, 40 provinces and 3 districts.
• DEM Party: Başak Demirtaş will not be a candidate in Istanbul 

  DEM Party said they met with “Ms. Başak Demirtaş and agreed in full harmony and coordination that she should not be a candidate in Istanbul."
• DEM Party to field its own candidate for the mayoral election in Istanbul 

  The DEM Party will be running its own candidate in the mayoral election in Istanbul.
• Leyla Atsak: We will take back the rights that trustees usurped 

  Sociologist Leyla Atsak was elected mayor of Çaldıran in 2019, but the defeated AKP candidate moved to the town hall. Now another local election is coming up. Atsak is determined to regain the town.
• Tekin: The government is trying to usurp the will of the people 

  DEM Party Amed Provincial Co-Chair Pınar Sakık Tekin pointed out that the AKP and MHP government resorted to dirty tricks by irregularly shifting voters to Kurdistan.
• EU Delegation to Turkey visits DEM Party in Ankara 

  During a visit to the DEM headquarters in Ankara, EU Ambassador to Turkey, Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, discussed current political and social developments with party co-chairs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan.