DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan described the failure to grant the certificate of election to Abdullah Zeydan in Wan as a "political coup". Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları said: "The decision must be reversed immediately."
Citizens in Şirnex center are protesting the intervention in the elections with “mobile” soldiers.
AKP, whose objection to the District Election Board regarding the Bazarcix (Dağpınar) Town Municipality ballot box results won by the DEM Party was rejected, appealed to the Provincial Election Board this time.
DEM Party announced that it will appeal to the YSK about the coup against the will of the voters in Wan.
AKP, who wanted to usurp the Bazarcix Town Municipality won by the DEM Party, appealed to the YSK.
Protests started all over the city after Abdullah Zeydan, who won the co-mayor of Wan Metropolitan Municipality, was not given the mandate. Fires were lit in all streets and avenues, and roads were closed to traffic.
In the Curnê Reş district, where the DEM Party won the municipality, a decision was made to renew the elections after the AKP objected to 15 ballot boxes.
DEM Party made a statement regarding the not given mandate of co-chair candidate Abdullah Zeydan in Wan, saying, "The political coup continues. We objected to the decision."
OHD announced that the Van Provincial Election Board gave the mandate to AKP's Abdulahat Arvas, who lost the election.
The withdrawal of the divested rights of Abdullah Zeydan, who won the co-mayor of Wan Metropolitan Municipality, with the "instruction" of the AKP is being protested. Shopkeepers in the city closed their shutters and protests began on all streets.
The lawyers of Asrın Law Firm applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client Abdullah Ocalan, whom they had not heard from for 37 months.
DEM Party took back 37 of the 48 municipalities to which trustees were appointed and increased the number of municipalities to 78. Other municipalities under trustee rule were usurped by the votes of the military and police.
The victory of the DEM Party in the Curnê Reş district reminded of 45 years ago when the municipality doors were first opened to women.
Umut Aktaş shot his two daughters with a firearm. While one of his daughters died, the other daughter was seriously injured.
All applications made by the family and lawyers of Rojnews editor Suleyman Ahmet, who has been detained by KDP's intelligence agency Parastin for 161 days, have remained unanswered so far.