As the voting window opens for citizens of Turkey living abroad, the European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress stressed that it is of critical strategic importance that expatriates go to the polls to oust President Erdoğan.
Turkish authorities continued their crackdown on pro-Kurdish opposition circles ahead of Turkey’s critical elections with three more arrests on Wednesday.
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann urged local authorities to intervene with Turkish politicians’ use of divisive election campaign speeches in German states.
Civilian village guards in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Şırnak (Şirnex) told reporters they had been threatened by police and had their weapons confiscated after ‘liking’ a social media post written by Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş.
