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• Çiçek says young people can make a difference on 14 May  

  Cengiz Çiçek is the Green Left Party's (YSP) first candidate in Istanbul's second constituency. He comes from Dersim and describes himself as a socialist from an Alevi-Kurdish working-class family.
• Rally in Marseille demands “Freedom for Öcalan” 

  Kurds and their friends staged a “Great Freedom Rally” promoted by the Democratic Kurdish Community Center (DTKM) in Marseille.
• Green Left Party Candidate: We are working to get 8 deputies elected in Van 

  The former co-chair of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Edremit district branch, Mahmut Dindar, contests the May 14 parliamentary elections as a candidate of the YPS (Green Left Party).
• Abdullah Öcalan’s book "Sociology of Freedom" presented in Milan 

  The Italian edition of Abdullah Öcalan’s Sociology of Freedom was presented in Milan on 15 April. All profits will be sent to the people of Kurdistan hit by the earthquake.
• Green Left Party Candidate Burcugül Çubuk: We are on the eve of a historic victory 

  Green Left Party candidate Burcugül Çubuk said that they are on the verge of a historic victory against the war waged by the fascist government against the Turkish and Kurdish people.
• CDK-F condemns sentences inflicted on 11 Kurdish activists in Paris 

  On 14 April 2023, the Paris Criminal Court delivered its verdict in the case of 11 Kurdish activists accused of belonging to the PKK, inflicting sentences from 3 to 5 years in prison.
• Activists in London demand freedom for Abdullah Öcalan  

  "The freedom of Abdullah Öcalan is the freedom of the peoples of the Middle East" said activists at a march in London.
• Bayik: We demand freedom for Abdullah Öcalan 

  Thousands of people demonstrated in Düsseldorf on Saturday demanding freedom for Abdullah Öcalan. At the final rally, after several speeches, a message from Cemil Bayik (KCK) was played to the crowd.
• Green Left Party opens office in Lausanne 

  At the opening of the Green Left Party's office in Lausanne, a call was made to voters in Europe to go to the polls.
• Activists in Vienna protest isolation of Abdullah Öcalan 

  A march was held in Vienna against the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Thousands rally in Düsseldorf for “Freedom for Öcalan” 

  Thousands of people from all over Germany and nearby countries rally in Düsseldorf for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Gürbüz: On 15 May we will wake up to a new day 

  HDP Adıyaman Provincial co-chair Bekir Gürbüz said the Green Party is working with the people to build a new country.
• Demir: We will work to prevent emigration from Ağrı  

  Nejla Demir is one of the candidates of the Green Left Party in Ağrı (Agirî). She said that she would work to prevent emigration from the region.
• Green Left Party presents its candidates in Antep 

  The Green Left Party presented its candidates in Antep.
• Panel to mark the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne 

  A panel was organized in the Palais de Rumine to mark the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne.
• Kobanê Case trial to resume on 3 July 

  The new hearing in the Kobanê Case was set for 3 July.
• Green Left Party kicks off electoral campaign in Hatay 

  The Green Left Party kicks off the electoral campaign in Hatay, one of the cities hit by the earthquake on 6 February.
• Swiss internationalist on trial for fighting ISIS in Rojava acquitted 

  An internationalist who went to Rojava from Switzerland in 2015 to join the fight against ISIS, has been acquitted by a court on Friday.
• Green Left Party candidates meet female agricultural workers in Izmir 

  The women candidates of the Green Left Party in İzmir came together with female agricultural workers in the Menderes district.
• Women from Iran and Rojhilat make animated movie for the Green Left Party 

  Women from Iran and Rojhilat made an animated movie to promote the Green Left Party ahead of the elections in Turkey.
• Green Left Party candidate for Istanbul: Our first goal is to make the palace regime lose 

  Kezban Konukçu Kok, one of the candidates of the Green Left Party for Istanbul, said that her party aimed at winning at least 20 deputies in the city.
• 'If Erdoğan falls, prices will also fall', says Green Party election poster 

  With the elections about a month away, the Greens and the Left Future Party continue to open election offices in Turkey and Kurdistan.
• Kiye: I will work to grant Kurdish language rights in parliament 

  Havin Kiye, one of the candidates of the Green Left Party in Van, said that she will fight for the constitutional guarantee of Kurdish as an official language and the right to education in one's mother tongue.
• Özkan: We aim at sending 3 deputies to parliament from 1st constituency in Ankara 

  Green Left Party candidate Ali Özkan said at the opening of the election office in the neighbourhood of Polatlı in Ankara that they are targeting 3 deputies in the 1st constituency of Ankara.
• Amed Labor and Democracy Platform announces 1 May program 

  Amed Labor and Democracy Platform announced at a press conference that they will celebrate 1 May in Dağkapı Square.