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• Green Left Party urges people abroad to vote for them and get rid of the one-man regime 

  The European election coordination of the Green Left Party is urging the more than three million eligible voters abroad to vote against the one-man regime in Turkey.
• Labor and Freedom alliance opens election office in Stuttgart 

  The Labor and Freedom alliance opened an election office in Stuttgart, just days before the 14 May elections.
• Green Left Party Co-Spokespersons: Voters abroad should take responsibility 

  Green Left Party Co-Spokespersons urged voters living abroad to go to the polls to “change together.”
• Protest in Cyprus against threatened extradition of Kurdish politician to Germany 

  Activists protested in front of the Supreme Court of Cyprus against the decision to extradite Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz to Germany.
• Green Left Party seeks record high votes in Switzerland 

  The Green Left Party aims to get record high votes in Switzerland in the 14 May elections. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) received the most votes in the 2018 elections.
• ‘Green Left Party represents hope not only for Alevis but for all minorities’ 

  Turgut Öker spoke to ANF about the election campaign in Turkey, the expectations of Alevis for the Green Left Party and the ruling party AKP's view of the Alevi community.
• HDP: The Kobani trial is a pretext to close the HDP and carry out systematic criminalisation 

  HDP stated that the Kobani case is closely linked with the closure case filed against the HDP, for which it serves as a pretext.
• Gülderen Varlı: We are working to get rid of the oppression imposed in Van 

  The Green Left Party candidate for Van, Gülderen Varlı, said they are working to get rid of the oppression of the state.
• Green Left Party Amed candidates say the one-man regime will fall 

  Green Left Party Amed candidates Sevilay Çelenk and Halide Türkoğlu said they would win against the AKP-MHP government.
• Green Left Party in Hakkari wants to send 3 deputies to Ankara 

  HDP Hakkari Provincial co-chair Hümeyra Armut said that with the Green Left Party, they aim to get 100 percent of the votes in the city and send 3 deputies to the parliament.
• Protests after raids of Kawa Federation and Democratic Society Center in Darmstadt 

  After the raids on the Kawa Federation and the Democratic Society Center in Darmstadt, as well as on several houses, protests were organized against the criminalization policy.
• Nicolas Walder: Only hope for regime change is the Kurdish movement 

  Swiss Greens Deputy Chair Nicolas Walder said that “the only hope for changing the current regime in Turkey is the attitude of the Kurdish movement. The votes of the Kurdish people will be decisive in these elections.”
• Fırtına: "I promise to work for a democratic republic  

  Green Left Party candidate Kerem Fırtına said: "I promise to work for the democratic republic without giving up and without taking a step back."
• Şenyaşar Family: We are waiting for the May 14 elections 

  "The government that has long persecuted us is about to go. We are waiting for the May 14 elections," said the Şenyaşar family holding a vigil in Urfa.
• HDP and Green Left Party: We can recreate our lives equally and freely 

  The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Green Left Party released a message marking the Ramadan Feast, saying that "We are certain that we will turn this holiday into a double holiday on May 14."
• Swedish Left Party supports Green Left Party in Turkey’s elections 

  The Swedish Left Party (Vänster) announced its full support for the Green Left Party in the upcoming elections. The party will also send an observer delegation to monitor the elections on May 14.
• Çandar: Erdoğan will leave the political stage 

  Turkish journalist and publicist Cengiz Çandar is running in the parliamentary elections on the Green Left Party list in Amed. In order to contribute to a regime change in Turkey, he has returned from Sweden after seven years.
• Aktar: Turkey will wake up to a bright new day after the elections 

  Mehmet Emin Aktar, a candidate of the Green Left Party for Diyarbakır, urged citizens to go to the polls and to ensure election safety.
• Federation of Alevi Associations: We will bring our struggle to Parliament with our candidate  

  Zeynel Abidin Koç, President of the Federation of Alevi Associations, said that they will bring their struggle for equal citizenship to the Parliament with the Green Left Party Istanbul candidate Celal Fırat.
• Women in Istanbul: "Let’s get rid of the AKP-MHP regime" 

  Women told Green Left Party candidates canvassing in Beyoğlu and Esenyurt, in Istanbul, “Let’s get rid of the AKP; Women will win”.
• Sarısaç: We have the choice to define the new century 

  Green Left Party Antep candidate Murat Sarısaç said: "We have the choice to define the new century."
• Berlin Dest-Dan Women's Assembly members send letters to Abdullah Öcalan 

  Berlin Dest-Dan Women's Assembly sent letters to Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan as part of a one-month campaign launched on the occasion of his birthday.
• Hüseyin Türeli buried in Batman 

  Hüseyin Türeli, who was murdered in South Kurdistan, where he lived in exile, was taken to his hometown, Batman, to be buried.
• New sit-in in front of the UN Office in Geneva to demand freedom for Öcalan 

  The sit-in continues in front of the UN Office in Geneva to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• The only way is the Green Left Party 

  Two things are important in the 14 May elections: the first is to overthrow the AKP-MHP fascism, and the second is a strong representation by the Green Left Party, i.e. the main party of the Labour and Freedom Alliance, in Parliament.