ELECTIONS 2023

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• Green Left Party Spokesperson: We will vote to defeat fascism and overthrow the one-man regime 

  Green Left Party spokesperson Ibrahim Akin calls for Turkish President Erdoğan to be voted out of office, saying: “First we will stop the fascism of the government and then we will continue our struggle for democracy with a stronger breath."
• Kurdish artists call on people to go to the polls tomorrow to "build a new future" 

  Kurdish artists Hemid Urmiye and Hozan Kawa called on people to go to the polls and vote for the Erdoğan regime to go.
• Kurdish politicians call on people to go to the polls on Sunday 

  Two days before the run-off vote for the presidency in Turkey, Kurdish politicians called on people to go to the polls, saying: “If the AKP and Erdoğan win again, society in Turkey will continue to be deprived of the air to breathe.”
• Erçe: Our priority is to unseat Erdogan and to end the one-man regime 

  Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Association Chair Cuma Erçe said that their priority was to unseat Tayyip Erdogan and to put an end to the one-man regime.
• Women in Maltepe call on women to go to the polls to defeat the one-man regime 

  Despite all the police's attempts to prevent it, Maltepe women marched from Marmaray Süreyya Beach Station to Maltepe Beşçeşmeler Square in Istanbul and called on everyone to get rid of the AKP-MHP regime.
• Women in Amed: We will get rid of the AKP-MHP regime on 28 May 

  Diyarbakir Network Against Violence called on all women, women's organizations, young people, democratic public opinion and all components of the social opposition to get rid of the one-man regime and raise the struggle on 28 May.
• HDP and Green Left Party: We will go to the polls and change the one-man regime 

  “The election we are facing is not a choice between Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu. This election is our election. Our vote is once again in favour of democracy, change and transformation,” said the HDP and the Green Left Party.
• Hatimoğulları: Every vote is important. Every single vote counts 

  Green Left Party Adana MP Tülay Hatimoğulları called on the people to vote on 28 May to put an end to the one-man regime.
• Esengül Demir: Let's stop the one-man regime with strong participation 

  HDK co-spokesperson Esengül Demir said that more than 8 million voters did not go to the polls and added they expect them to vote in the second round to get rid of fascism.
• Record turnout in Switzerland for second round in Turkish presidential election 

  Voting in Switzerland for the second round of the presidential election in Turkey ended on Wednesday night. A record turnout was confirmed.
• Peoples' Democratic Party and the Green Left Party to make statement today 

  The Peoples' Democratic Party and the Green Left Party will make a statement ahead of the second ballot in Turkey's presidential elections.
• Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Alliance calls on people to vote for a change and democracy 

  The Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Alliance said that they would support the main opposition’s presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in the May 28 election.
• Construction workers' union: Go to the polls to get rid of the AKP-MHP government 

  Dev-Yapı-Iş executive Nihat Demir urged all construction workers to go to the polls and cast their votes to get rid of the AKP-MHP government.
• Voting abroad ends today 

  The Green Left Party observer, Rabia Baldemir, said that people in Switzerland can go to the polls until 10pm today and said: "We are the ones who can overthrow this government by voting."
• Fidan Ataselim calls on all women to organise to end the one-man regime 

  Feminist Fidan Ataselim called for a vote for Kılıçdaroğlu in the second round of elections, saying, “Despite all the differences of opinion, it is now a matter of ending the one-man regime and opposing the most reactionary parliament in history.”
• Peace Mothers: Go to the polls in the second round of elections 

  Members of the Van Peace Mothers Initiatives called on all peoples, especially the Kurdish people, to go to the polls on May 28 to put an end to the persecution and to promote peace and justice.
• ATA Alliance to support Erdoğan in the runoff on May 28 

  The presidential election in Turkey and North Kurdistan is going to a second round, as no candidate could secure the required number of votes in the first round.
• Voting for the second round of presidential election continues in Berlin 

  Voters in Berlin are flocking to polling stations on the third day of the voting in the second round of Turkey’s presidential election.
• Voting process in Switzerland registers high turnout 

  Voting for the second round of the presidential election in Turkey continues in Switzerland. A high turnout was registered.
• Free Women’s Movement: We won't surrender our hope, future and freedom to tyranny and fascism 

  The Free Women’s Movement called on women to go to the polls on 28 May.
• People go to cast their vote in high numbers in Berlin 

  People go to cast their vote for the presidential run-off elections in high numbers in Berlin.
• Campus Witches make "purple chain for life" in Izmir against misogynistic AKP-MHP politics  

  Campus Witches formed a "purple chain for life" in Izmir against misogynistic politics and called on people to vote and make Erdogan lose in the second round of the presidential elections.
• Baydemir calls on voters abroad to go to the polls  

  Kurdish politician Osman Baydemir called on voters abroad to go to the polls and vote against those who want to institutionalize absolute fascism.
• Higher number of voters in Switzerland on first day 

  On the first day, 18,894 people cast their votes in 31 polling stations set up for the presidential election in Switzerland.
• Voting continues in Melbourne 

  Long queues were formed on Saturday morning in Melbourne, when people went to vote for the second turn of the presidential elections.