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There are only 10 disabled members in municipality councils across all districts of Istanbul. Non-governmental organizations say that problems cannot be solved without any representation.

In Adalar, we have responded by putting forth an all-female ticket for city mayor and council. Not only are we all women and live on the islands, but we have Muslims and Christians, Turks, Armenians, Greeks and even a foreign-born woman (American from Texas) on the ticket for city council, and our candidate for mayor, Kayuş Çalıkman Gavrilof, is of Armenian origin.

HDP co-chairs Kürkçü and Tuncel declared Sırrı Süreyya Önder as their candidate for Istanbul mayor. “We will struggle against AKP and CHP, the parties of the statusquo,” they added.