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• Iğdır said: HDP! 

  According to the latest results, the HDP won the election in Iğdır, where all parties supported the MHP candidate.
• 27 voters detained in İzmir 

  State forces continue their repression against people.
• Protest against isolation in Sydney 

  In Sydney, in solidarity with the prisoners and politicians on hunger strike, a protest against the isolation of the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan has taken place.
• CHP mayoral candidate for Siverek taken into custody 

  CHP mayoral candidate Fatih Bucak has been taken into custody in Siverek.
• Polls close, vote counting begins in Turkey’s local elections 

  57 million people eligible to vote for a total of 1,289 mayors across the country.
• Voting ends in 32 cities 

  Voting process has been completed in 32 cities at 16:00 Turkey time Sunday afternoon.
• Corbyn meets with activists supporting Kurdish hunger strikers 

  Jeremy Corbyn has met with activists close to the Kurdish hunger strikers in Newport.
• Hunger strikers cast their votes 

  Activists in the hunger strike resistance against the isolation of Öcalan are casting their votes.
• Irish people protested against Brexit  

  Protests are growing in Ireland against Brexit. 
• German jurist visits hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  Jurist Ronald Mönch visited the hunger strike in Strasbourg. Europe owe much to the Kurds, said the former rector of the University of Bremen.
• Temelli: We will make important changes starting from tomorrow 

  “The wind has arrived early. There is a wind of democracy and peace blowing."
• HDP Co-chair Buldan casts her vote in Istanbul 

  Buldan has cast her vote in Istanbul and will leave for Diyarbakır where she will be following the results of elections.
• Demirtaş sends a message for elections 

  HDP former co-chair has been imprisoned since November 2016.
• Amed people vote under the siege of thousands of state forces 

  Today’s local elections are taking place under the siege of Turkish state forces in Amed.
• Police officers casting votes unlawfully in Halfeti 

  Police officers transported to Halfeti from Mersin, Adana, Antalya and Konya are casting votes unlawfully.
• HDP: We are committed to reclaiming our municipalities 

  Intensified pressures on the HDP on the eve of local elections: hundreds of detentions, arrests, and deportation of international observers.
• HDP Kars co-mayor candidate Bilgen voted 

  HDP politician Ayhan Bilgen is the co-mayor candidate for Kars province.
• Hunger striker HDP Amed MP Dersim Dağ voted 

  HDP Amed MP Dersim Dağ who has been on hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan has voted. 
• European delegation visited HDP deputies on hunger strike in Amed 

  A European delegation will be in Kurdistan today to follow the local elections and will visit the HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven  who has been on hunger strike for 144 days as well as the other deputies fasting. 
• Aydemir to continue hunger strike in Rome 

  Erol Aydemir went on hunger strike 10 days ago in the city of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia in Italy.
• Ceylanpınar people will try to reclaim the municipality 

  Ceylanpınar will try to get the stolen municipality back.
• People go to polls to vote for mayors 

  57 million people are eligible to vote for a total of 1,289 mayors across the country.
• AvEG-Kon to go on solidarity hunger strike in Cologne 

  “The demand of Leyla Güven and other activists for the end of the isolation is a social demand and concerns all of us. Isolation is a crime against humanity and should be removed immediately”, said AvEG-Kon.
• Demo against the isolation of Öcalan in Paris 

  Demonstrations in solidarity with hunger strike actions against the isolation of Öcalan continue across Europe.
• Yüksekdağ calls on people to vote against fascism 

  “Claim every single vote given for our peoples’ labor, right, will, and for the growing resistance in prisons and outside.”