Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Sezai Temelli met with the voters in the historic Sur district in Amed. Temelli visited a coffee house in a side street off Melikahmet Avenue and was met by the people on the street. Temelli walked through the narrow streets of Sur to the coffee house and chatted with the public there. When the coffee house was flooded by men, women and children, the young and the old, the crowd continued to grow outside. Temelli was accompanied by Amed Co-mayorial candidate Selcuk Mizrakli and Sur Co-mayorial candidates Filiz Buluttekin and Cemal Ozdemir.

PEOPLE SPOKE ABOUT THEIR ISSUES

Sur residents said they will send the trustee back to Ankara on March 31 and relayed that they want a mourning house in the neighborhood. The residents also want more investment for education and complained that there are not enough spaces in the neighborhood for children to play. Sur residents said the biggest issue is unemployment, demanding a solution. They said the historic fabric of the district must be protected and protested President and AKP Leader Tayyip Erdogan’s comments against Kurds.

CHILDREN’S DEMANDS

Children surrounded Temelli and asked for a swimming pool in the neighborhood. A worker in the coffee house said, “They will leave you a wrecked municipality. The districts and the metropolitan municipality have a ton of debt. It will be a mess.”

“MEET ME IN THE FINAL RALLY TOMORROW”

After the coffee house meeting, Temelli visited shopkeepers on the Melikahmet Avenue. The Sur residents, gathered under the slogan “Sur ya me ye”, accompanied him. Temelli was met with great interest from the people, as crowds stopped Temelli to take photographs and greet him. Temelli invited everybody to the rally to be held tomorrow in the Amed Station Square.