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Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy
Party BDP won 3 metropolitan cities
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BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş casts his
vote in Amed (Diyarbakir), Sunday, March 30, 2014. Photo: ANF
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BDP wins 11 cities, 68 districts and 23
sub-districts
March 31, 2014
DIYARBAKIR-AMED, Turkey's Kurdish
region,— According to unofficial results the
pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has won
11 cities, including 3 metropolitan municipalities,
68 districts and 23 sub-districts at the local
elections.
BDP fielded candidates in 22 provinces at the
elections which took place yesterday. BDP
Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş said the party had
achieved its goals and forced the AKP into retreat
in Kurdistan.
According to unconfirmed results the BDP has
increased its number of municipalities to 102,
including its gaining of three more cities. In some
districts debate continues over the results. While
the BDP lost votes in some provinces compared with
the elections of 2009, it achieved record high votes
in others.
In 2009 the BDP received 5.21% of the vote, whereas
in yesterday's elections the combined BDP and HDP
vote reached 6.36%.
Mardin, Ağrı and Bitlis were won by the BDP for the
first time, while the party retained Amed, Batman,
Van, Dersim, Siirt, Hakkari, Şırnak and Iğdır.
The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has won
3 metropolitan cities (Amed, Van and Mardin), 8
provinces and 66 districts in Kurdistan. Bitlis,
Mardin and Ağrı are the new municipalities taken by
the BDP.
In Amed, BDP took 54 percent of the votes and took
15 districts of the main Kurdish city.
In Van, BDP received 52 percent votes and won the
municipalities of 12 districts.
This is the first time the BDP has taken the local
administration in Bitlis, receiving 44 percent of
the votes and also winning the municipalities of
Hizan, Mutki, Güroymak and Ahlat.
Former chair of the DTK (Democratic Society
Congress), Ahmet Türk who run as an independent
candidate due to his political ban, won the
elections getting 52 percent of the votes. BDP Also
took the municipalities of Dargeçit, Derik,
Kızıltepe, Mazıdağı and Nusaybin districts.
In Erzurum, BDP won the local administration of
Karayazı, Tekman, Hınıs, Karaçoban districts for the
first time, and also remained in the lead in
Karakoçan district of Elazığ.
BDP has broken a record in Şırnak where it
received some 60 percent of the votes and won all
districts except for Güçlükonak district.
BDP also took the municipality of Hakkari and all
its districts.
The municipality of Ağrı, and its Diyadin,
Doğubeyazıt and Tutak districts were also won by the
BDP.
BDP took the municipality of Iğdır, and its Tuzluca
district, of Batman and its Beşiri and Gercüş
districts, of Siirt and its Baykan and Eruh
districts.
The municipality of Dersim was also won by the BDP.
BDP also won in Suruç, Viranşehir, Bozova and
Halfeti districts of Urfa, as well as Malazgirt,
Varto and Bulanık districts of Muş and Digor in
Kars.
The Akdeniz district of Mersin has been the only
municipality taken by the BDP in the west of Turkey.
Demirtaş: Results show
polarized Turkey
In a statement assessing the results of local
elections, BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said the
results have revealed the presence of a very sharp
polarization in Turkey.
BDP co-chair said the process of local elections
should be discussed for a long time for it didn't
witness any discussion about local elections and
passed instead as if a process of general elections.
According to Demirtaş, the Gezi uprising of last
June, 17 December's corruption and bribery operation
and recently leaked tapes have affected the election
process, adding that the results have also revealed
that voters predominantly maintained their political
view.
Remarking that the BDP reached 80 percent in the
Kurdish region before the elections, BDP co-chair
said the party had the potential to receive more
votes but failed to do so because of the ongoing
imprisonment of its politicians, the discrimination
it has faced and the lack of media support for the
party. Demirtaş said the state-run Anadolu Agency
and TRT imposed an embargo on the BDP and gave no
coverage to its propaganda within this process.
According to Demirtaş, women are the only winners of
the local elections and that they have achieved a
great success in both BDP and HDP (Peoples'
Democratic Party).
BDP co-chair criticized Turkish Prime Minister
Erdoğan for using a discriminative language during
the election campaigning process as if the country
would have a war not elections.
He said it was very important that BDP made AKP
suffer a downfall in the areas it competed the AKP,
and managed to increase the number of its
municipalities.
BDP co-chair remarked that they would conduct
researches in the areas where BDP has lost and
received less votes.
Demirtaş said BDP stood by all the promises it made
before the elections, and wouldwww.Ekurd.net
be doing its best to fulfill them and conducting a
much more comprehensive work in the coming period.
He said local elections have been a kind of
rehearsal for the general elections when -he added-
they expected to achieve a greater success.
Drawing attention to the success BDP and HDP have
achieved, Demirtaş said it was not easy to achieve
this as an opposition and grassroots movement.
Vote Rates Across Turkey
The difference between AA and Cihan News Agecy in
the process of vote counting has kept on.
According to both of the news agency the vote rates
as of 11:30 am local time can be seen below:
According to Anatolia Agency, opened ballot boxes:
97.66
The percentages of the parties:
AKP: 45.55%
CHP: 27.91%
MHP: 15.6%
BDP: 4.01%
According to Cihan News Agency, opened ballot boxes:
92.65
The percentages of the parties:
AKP: 43.20%
CHP: 26.13%
MHP: 17.68%
BDP: 4.54%
According to the party assembly elections in 2009
the percentages of the vote distributions were as
the following:
AKP: 38.39%
CHP: 23.08%
MHP: 15.97%
DTP: 5.70% (AS/BD)
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