02/05/2024 – #DailyNews – #MedyaNews
📍 Turkey’s main opposition leader Özgür Özel is scheduled to meet with Turkish President Erdoğan on Thursday, a month after the ruling AKP’s historic defeat in local polls. Commentators speculate over the impact of the controversial face-to-face engagement on the state of democracy in the country.
📍 Following two years of delays on THE Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s parliamentary elections, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)’s Political Bureau warns further postponements would be a “regression from democracy”.
📍 Prominent Kurdish politician Ilham Ahmed highlights international neglect of Syria’s Kurdish-led autonomous region amid continued Turkish attacks targeting civilian infrastructure.
📍 Turkey’s top Human Rights Association reports widespread electoral violations in the country’s recent local elections, citing 44,000 ‘ghost voters’.
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