As it promised, the HDP continues with its election campaign, door to door, street by street, city after city. 
Co-chair Sezai Temelli and his accompanying delegation met people in Topçular, Dilovası and Gebze where he also joined the opening of the party’s election offices before holding a public meeting in Kocaeli.

In Kocaeli, before the opening of the party’s election office, Temelli met with HDP candidate Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu. The head list candidate is well known in Kocaeli both for his commitment as a rights defender and as a doctor. 

HDP co-chair Sezai Temelli said that the AKP's purpose for staying in power was to leave HDP under the threshold and so continue its regime. 

Temelli said: "The President does not release our candidates from prison. But this is not enough for them, which is why they increased the attacks against the HDP by the day. Police - said Temelli - are preventing us from working and carrying out our electoral campaign in peace”. 

Temelli added that the regime decided to “move 270,000 votes with a decision taken yesterday by the Election Commission. In fact they want to move polls so that people cannot reach them.  Clearly - said Temelli - the aim of this is preventing people to reach the polls and vote for the HDP”.

Temelli underlined that “the AKP actually sees not just the HDP as enemy but the entire Kurdish people. The regime wants to continue to rule with hostility and war, but we, the HDP, will avoid this. We are on the verge of a new beginning”.

Referring to the situation in Kocaeli, Temelli said that “what Kocaeli produced, the Palace consumed. This is the province which most gives in the country - said Temelli - Unfortunately though, very little of what Kocaeli produces actually stays in the region. Poverty is striking. We want to change this. The way to prevent this is to get away from the dirty and polluting industry, and move towards a program putting social growth first, in harmony with nature”.

Temelli ended his speech by saying: “The struggle of the Kurdish people and the struggle of all workers, women, youth will win on 24 June. We will have peace and democracy in this country beginning on the night of 24 June. We will smash the threshold together. Together we will bring peace to this country. Peace will come to Sur, Cizre and Afrin”.