Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan announced the decisions taken by the Central Executive Committee (MYK) at a press conference held at the party headquarters in Ankara.

Having announced on 9 February the candidates for 16 metropolises, 40 provinces and 3 districts for the local elections on 31 March, the party announced the co-mayoral candidates for 14 more provinces today, which are as follows:

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality: Gültan Kışanak - Öztürk Türkdoğan

Urfa Metropolitan Municipality: Celallettin Ekmen- Gülser Yıldırım

Antep Metropolitan Municipality: Selman Tutumlu

Malatya Metropolitan Municipality: Abdulvahap Ekim- Sevim Şimşek Bayram

Bursa Metropolitan Municipality: İhsan Seylan- Bilmez Erboğa

Konya Metropolitan Municipality: Gülbahar Gündüz- Bülent Kılıç

Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality: Hasan Özgüneş- Selda İlgöz Koçyiğit

Aydın Metropolitan Municipality: Suzan Koç- Naif Kanat

Osmaniye Municipality: Ziver Gümüş- Zilan Karagüzel

Kilis Municipality: Ahmet Üçer- Azize Akoğlu

Elazığ Municipality: Hayrettin Kaya – (Female candidate to be announced in coming days)

Adıyaman Municipality: Meryem Ceritli- Bahattin Bilgin

Message from Kışanak

Imprisoned in Kandıra Prison for 8 years, former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Gültan Kışanak sent a message through her lawyers regarding her nomination as a co-mayoral candidate.

Gültan Kışanak's message is as follows: 

"Dear peoples, I would like to state that I have accepted our party's nomination as co-mayoral candidate for Ankara Metropolitan Municipality as a requirement of my responsibility to you.

Our problems, especially the Kurdish question and the women's liberation issue, needed to be discussed at the source, in Ankara. We are setting out to build bridges of social peace from Diyarbakır to Ankara and from Ankara to all four corners of Turkey.

I invite you, everyone who believes in peace, democracy and freedom, to take the initiative in this struggle and wish you success in advance."