content tagged with local elections

11 of the politicians who were detained in southeastern province Şırnak yesterday have begun to depose in the security directorate.

Supreme Election Council Chair Güven, speaking on the claims regarding imaginary voters, has said that 56,496 voters' registrations were suspended because of not residing in dwellings where they were previously registered.

Releasing a joint declaration ahead of local elections on March 31, seven Kurdish political parties, movements and associations, including Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have announced that they have formed an alliance.

13 political parties will compete in the local elections on March 31, the Supreme Election Council has announced.

Ankara Bar Association has released a statement and denounced the Supreme Election Council’s (YSK) decision preventing prisoners and those convicted of negligent offenses from voting: “It is an open intervention in the essence of the right to vote.”

The Supreme Election Council’s (YSK) decision preventing prisoners and those convicted of negligent offenses from casting votes has been published on the Official Gazette.

Following his death in a helicopter crash days before the elections, MP and BBP party chair Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was buried yesterday.

The police made use of the address-based registry of voters to find out where wanted persons would be voting. 590 people were taken into custody. Rights activist Yurtsever was wrongly detained.