'City Consensus' well ahead in Esenyurt
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In Esenyurt, one of the largest districts of Istanbul, the "City Consensus" candidate, supported by the DEM Party, is well ahead.
In Esenyurt, one of the largest districts of Istanbul, the "City Consensus" candidate, supported by the DEM Party, is well ahead.
CHP Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality candidate Ekrem Imamoglu made a statement regarding the election results in the city, "The photo you see now pleases us."
According to preliminary inconclusive data, CHP is ahead in Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir.
In Dêrsim, one of the most anticipated cities in the local elections, the DEM Party, with which the left-socialist and democracy forces formed an alliance, won.
DEM Party outdid in Amara District, where PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan was born.
DEM Party Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Co-Chair Candidate Meral Danış Beştaş called on the ballot box officials not to leave the ballot boxes after the voting process ended.
YSK banned journalists from taking videos during the vote count.
All election ballot boxes are closed in Tukey and Kurdistan.
YSK Chair Ahmet Yener said: "We will hold a meeting about what time the publication ban will be lifted."
While voting ends in 32 centers, the ballot boxes will close at 17.00 pm in other centers.
Soldiers and police officers, whom AKP brought to many cities as voters, were brought to the ballot boxes where they would vote en masse.
Fince Akman, the prisoner's relative at the Justice Watch, stated that the guards forced them to "speak Turkish" during the meeting in the prison.
IHD Co-Chair Eren Keskin stated that the arrest of 75-year-old Hatice Yıldız for sending money to her daughter and her friend in prison has no basis in law and described the situation as "irrational".
All applications made by the family and lawyers of Rojnews editor Suleyman Ahmet, who has been detained by KDP's intelligence agency Parastin for 159 days, have remained unanswered so far.
The hunger strike launched by political prisoners in prisons to demand the physical freedom of PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan has entered its 126th day.