...green with envy!
Posted on 03/30/2019 3:28:24 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Turkish police on Saturday conducted raids on 127 homes in Istanbul and arrested at least 53 people, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) candidates for the city council, as the country goes to ballot boxes for nationwide local elections in less than 24 hours.
Elsewhere in the southern Sanliurfa province, police arrested 11 others campaigning for the elections, the HDP said in a statement to the public, adding the reason for arrests was not specified yet.
In the cities of Adana, Van, and Igdir, authorities reprimanded 31 party members to prisons on “terrorism-related” charges.
The current wave of now a years-long crackdown on the Kurdish opposition came days after Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu promised a large-scale operation targeting the HDP.
The party that with the support of other Kurdistani parties have fielded candidates in major Kurdish population centers where it traditionally wins most elections.
But it did not do so in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir where the ratio of an average of above 10 percent votes it gets can swing the results in favor of the Turkish opposition against the right-wing coalition led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In the HDP statement, the party’s spokesperson Ayse Acar Basaran said since they started the election campaign this year, Turkish authorities arrested 713 party members, including polling clerks.
Of those, 107 remain in detention, she said.
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Turkey local elections take place tomorrow. In Erdogan the Islamist's Turkey, if you decide you are threatened in an election you simply put the candidates and party officials in jail.
Are our Democrats capable of doing that? If not yet, I bet they are considering it. Headshake.
What is not acceptable in Venezuela or Cuba according to NATO nations must not be acceptable among a member of the alliance, which allegedly consists of democratic nations.
Interesting development
...green with envy!
How we tolerate a murderous islamic dictatorship as a member of NATO is unfathomable. President Trump needs to order the closure and destruction of American military facilities in Turkey and insist that Turkey be expelled from NATO, failing which the United States will withdraw from this one-sided “alliance”. The US should have one-on-one treaties with a few key countries, which should exclude almost every country in what we used to call Western Europe.
Turkey is about to turn itself into rubble
Oh, yes. He has long supported Hamas.
They have done just that to the Eastern part of Turkey where the Kurds live.
Yep.
Yep, puke green.
Yes, headshake.
The northern part of Iraq, which is where Kurds and other groups destroyed by ISIS reside, should be granted independent status. Neither the US nor the government of Iraq stopped ISIS from savaging that region. That would be a very nice buffer state to stop Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel from gaining territory which is not theirs. It would also be a strong neighbor for Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Add to that it has the resources and determined population to be a valid, successful independent nation.
Rojava @AzadiRojava 2h2 hours ago
https://twitter.com/AzadiRojava/status/1112333356136583169
Elections in Turkey are so 'free' that opposition party HDP is not even mentioned in the election results. Erdogan's Elections are a #TotalFarce. Turkey is a full blown #Dictatorship
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Frank S Wise @FrankSW_TX 1h1 hour ago
https://twitter.com/FrankSW_TX/status/1112344567628685312
ERDOGAN’S RIGGED ELECTION
Erdogan Regime police made everyone out of voting room but Erdogan's AKP officials in Gaziosmanpasa Istanbul.
And the officials rigged the votes. Haberdar
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Kevok Foundation @FoundationKevok 5h5 hours ago
https://twitter.com/FoundationKevok/status/1112290028162568192
Kevok Foundation Retweeted Selahattin Demirtas
the real democratic president. drawing in prison. #FreeHDP #WeAreDemirtas #YaMeYe #BijiHDP
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Erik Meyersson @emeyersson 9h9 hours ago
https://twitter.com/emeyersson/status/1112230750491983873
Turkey's 1st local elections under its autocratic institutional system is today. The issue at hand today isnt whether the elections are free & fair (they're not) but how much legitimacy the gov is willing to forego to ensure it retains power. Even autocrats need legitimacy.
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RebwarR @RebRw 5h5 hours ago
https://twitter.com/RebRw/status/1112294297334964224
We are winning!
AKP & MHP racist & expansionistic coalition will damage the whole region, but will definitely harm good and democratic Turks even more.
Today, despite harsh political conditions, people courageously go out and vote for a democratic Turkey for everyone! Peace!
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Frank S Wise @FrankSW_TX 53m53 minutes ago
ERDOGAN’S RIGGED ELECTION
https://twitter.com/FrankSW_TX/status/1112352226238976000
The votes were stolen in Gaziosmanpasa Istanbul by Erdogan Regime.
Ateist Salyangoz
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Gilgo -Exclusive Election Broadcast @GforGilgo 5h5 hours ago
https://twitter.com/GforGilgo/status/1112287457771507719
In Siirt, also Kurdish city where voter records were erased, police and soldiers transported from Turkish cities by some 45 buses, voted in the morning. Some of them are claimed to have spent the night in mosques, as there is no room left in hotels and dormitories in the City.
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Rojava @AzadiRojava 1h1 hour ago
Rojava Retweeted Gilgo -Exclusive Election Broadcast
https://twitter.com/AzadiRojava/status/1112345522000543744
Follow Gilgo for more vids like this one below from the 'free' elections in Turkey where AKP Erdoganistas even started shooting @ Kurdish voters
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Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve 5h5 hours ago
https://twitter.com/Evilnihil/status/1112350688279855105
Police have attacked Erdi's polling station In the Yeilova district of Erdi (Erci, Wan province), a stronghold of the HDP. AKP supporters have threatened voters. There was a verbal confrontation, whereupon riot police occupied the polling station #TurkeyElections2019
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