The Turkish election officer restored the chosen mayor of the city of Van, representing the Procuronian party

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The Higher Electoral Commission of Turkey canceled the decision of the regional body, which previously removed from the post of Abdullah Zeidan, the chosen mayor of the city of Van from the Prokurdsk Democratic Party of Peoples (DPN). This was reported by the party in its social networks. The election committee made this decision against the backdrop of mass protests against the removal of Zeidan.

Zeydan scored more than 55% of the vote in the last Sunday, but after that the election commander said that he had no right to run for criminal record: in 2016–2022, he was serving a sentence in prison for criticism of a military campaign against Kurdish regions. Instead, the mayor was declared a representative of the ruling party of justice and development, who gained 27% of the vote. After that, protests broke out in Van province, on which 89 people were detained. On April 3, it became known that the Higher Electoral Commission granted the DPN appeal to the decision of the regional election commission.

In the local elections on March 31, in a number of the largest cities in Turkey, opposition forces, primarily representatives of the Republican People’s Party, won. Among the cities where the opposition won, Istanbul, the capital of Turkey Ankara, Izmir and a number of cities in the east of Turkey, where the province of Van is located.

"Party of Justice and Development" and Recep Erdogan

• “Party of Justice and Development” (PSR) is the ruling party of Turkey, which won the general elections to the Turkish parliament in 2023.

• The party leader is the current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

• Since the creation of the PSR in 2003, the parliamentary elections once - in 2015 - when the party leader was Binali Yyldyrym.

• The party has 290 seats in the Turkish parliament, which is not a constitutional majority and does not allow the party to lobby for its bills alone.

• The PSR is a batch and advocates conservative values, in particular against the values ​​of secularism prescribed in the Turkish constitution. For this, the opposition unsuccessfully tried to ban the PSR.

• Some researcher: Nitsi call the PSR “Neo-Song Party” because of imperial ambitions a representative: the party of the party and attempts to take possession of political influence in the countries that were part of the Ottoman Empire. Such a rhetoric is noticeable with the leader of the Erdogan party.

What is Kurdistan and Kurdish autonomy?

• Kurd: Yankees - Indo -European ethnic group, their historical homeland - mountainous regions of the current Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, which are known under the collective name of Kurdistan. In total, about 30 million Kurd lives in the region: Yanok, this is the fourth largest nationality of the Middle East, as well as the largest people of the region, which does not have its own state.

• Modern Türkiye is fighting against Kurdish autonomy. In the country Kurd: Yankees are considered part of the Turkish people. Kurdish movement took the position of denial of the ideology of pantyurkism Pantyurkism suggests that all peoples speaking in Turkic languages ​​are the same nation and must unite into a single state. . Kurd resistance: Yanok lasted almost all the time since the formation of modern Turkey in 1923. One of the most famous organizations of Kurdish resistance is the Kurdistan Workers Party (RPK).

• The Kurdistan’s working party was created by Abdullah Ojalan and Sakina Dzhanyz in 1978 in Turkey. The ideology of the party was based on Marxism-Leninism. Since the mid-1980s, the organization has been in an armed struggle with the Turkish government.

• At first, the purpose of the RPK was to build a Kurdish national state, but later Abdullah Odjalan formulated a new concept of self -government, which could replace the national states of the Middle East. For the first time, a model of Kurdish self -government, based on this ideology, was tested in 2009 in North Kurdistan (Türkiye), when mainly supporters of the RPC were elected to the municipal self -government bodies. After that, nine thousand Kurds were accused by the Turkish government of terrorism and thrown into prisons.

• In 2003, a party of democratic unity (Pyd), close in its ideas to the RPK, was founded in Western Kurdistan (Syrian region of Rozhava), but operating in Syria.

• The Kurdistan working party is recognized as a terrorist organization in Turkey, the USA and a number of European countries. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that Kurdish detachments in Syria are under the control of the RPK and, therefore, are terrorists.

• Kurdish parties and detachments are connected as the horizontal movement of ideologically close organizations, and not a bureaucratic structure. Read more about Kurdistan in our cards.