Voting begins in historic election
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- 08:33 14/5/2023
Voting for the presidential and general elections started at 08:00. Vote counting will begin at the ballot boxes that will close at 17:00.
Voting for the presidential and general elections started at 08:00. Vote counting will begin at the ballot boxes that will close at 17:00.
Green Left Party holds final rallies with the participation of hundreds of thousands in Amed(Diyarbakır), Istanbul and Wan(Van).
Abdulhalim Kırtay, who was released after 30 years of detention and passed away 51 days later, left an image of a great struggle and the moments when he sang the song "Çavê te wek çavên xezalê".
The French delegation, which visited the Şenyaşar family on the 782nd day of the sit-in, said that they will be the voice of the Şenyaşar family in Geneva.
Eurasia Research owner Kemal Özkiraz was detained for the result of the presidential election poll.
The Ministry of Defense announced that a soldier lost his life in the military operation in Zap, Avaşîn and Metina.
The artists, who called to the ballot box on May 14 for the AKP government to go, which continued its pressures on culture and arts during its rule, called out, "Let's protect every vote".
Expressing that the government deepens discrimination regarding ill prisoners, İHD İstanbul Branch President Gülseren Yoleri said that this is against the principle of equality and that the society is polarized.
Stating that the speculations about İmralı are the ways AKP resorts to staying in power, Green Left Party VQA member Cahit Kırkazak said: " The isolation is an evil against Turkish society."
In the case of the two files that were combined in the massacre against the Şenyaşar family, it was decided to continue the detention of Fadıl Şenyaşar and three other people.
Pointing to the May 14 elections, imprisoned DFG Co-Chair Serdar Altan said: "The unlawful period we live in with our belief in a democratic and free future is closing."
Stating that they will be on the field with 1,600 lawyers on the election day, ÖHD Co-Chairs Serhat Çakmak and Ekin Yeter said: “We invite our 85 million citizens to the ballot boxes. We will be on the field and everywhere against violations."
Independent foreign delegations coming to Turkey with the call made abroad by the Green Left Party in line with the election monitoring activities will follow the elections in Kurdistan and many other regions.
Families of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş held in İmralı Prison applied to the prosecutor's office and the prison directorate for a visit.
Visiting the Asrın Law Office and receiving information about the isolation, the members of the International Peace Delegation to Imrali said: "The Kurdish problem could be solved once PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan regained his physical freedom."