Kurdish politician Hatip Dicle addressed those eligible to vote abroad and stressed the importance of their votes for the elections to be held in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan on 14 May.

Hatip Dicle said: "The number of deputies from many regions depends entirely on foreign votes. We are in a very historical process. The elections on 14 May are of historic importance to us. We are at a historic crossroads and we have the chance to make the AKP-MHP fascist alliance collapse, to provide a democratic solution to the Kurdish question and to open the way to a democratic republic."

Dicle added: "We have deemed it appropriate to share the latest information sent to us by our Green Left Party Headquarters. According to calculations, we need foreign votes to send more deputies to parliament from Ardahan, Kars, Erzurum, Aydın, Konya, Manisa, Izmir, Hatay, Bursa and Ankara.

For this reason, it is important that those who have not yet voted do so."