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• Demirtaş: Delegation must go to İmralı at once 

  HDP Co-president Selahattin Demirtaş said that the peace process must continue from where it was left off.
• Tensions rose in Amed after an armed attack 

  Aytaç Baran, President of the Scholarship Service Aid and Survey Association, known with close ties with the radical Islamist Hür Dava (Free Cause) Part, HÜDA-PAR, has been killed in an armed attack in Şehitlik town in Yenişehir district of Amed.
• 149 years prison sentence for 16 Kurdish politicians in Van 

  The final judgment in the so-called KCK case in Van has been announced. In the final hearing of the case, 16 politicians who are standing trial since 2012, were given a total of 149 years prison sentence.
• KCK: HDP victory must be crowned with democratization in Turkey 

  KCK stressed that all democracy forces in Turkey should interpret the results correctly, undertake more responsibility to fulfill its requirements, strengthen the alliance and crown the struggle with democratization in the country.
• Demirtaş: AKP and CHP should form coalition 

  HDP Co-President Demirtaş said that they would not form a coalition with AKP, and suggested that AKP and CHP should form coalition instead.
• HDP parliamentarians visit families of those massacred in Amed 

  10 HDP Amed parliamentarians visited the families of those people who were massacred during the bomb attack on HDP’s June 5 rally.
• 17-year-old injured in Amed massacre dies 

  Civan Arslan (17) who was injured in the bombed attack on HDP rally in Amed lost his life in the hospital where he was treated under intensive care.
• French Left Front member: HDP is the biggest winner of elections 

  French Left Front (Front de Gauche) member Marie-Christine Vergiat said that HDP victory means the failure of Erdoğan’s authoritarian policies that ignore minorities.
• 24 gang members killed in Kobanê and Cizîrê 

  Operation Commander Rubar Qamishlo that was initiated by YPG/YPJ May 6 with the objective of entirely liberating the rural district to the west of Canton Cizîrê from ISIS threats, endures successfully on the 33rd continuous day.
• YPJ: We salute the HDP victory 

  YPJ Kobanê Command saluted the historic victory HDP has achieved in the democracy struggle at the general elections in Turkey and Bakurê (North) Kurdistan by exceeding the 10 percent election threshold.
• HDP achieves 13.1 % of votes, 6 million voters, 80 deputies 

  Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has demolished the 10 percent election threshold in Turkey and North Kurdistan, getting 13.1 percent of the votes from 6 million 52 thousand voters and granting 80 seats in the Turkish parliament.
• HDP victory celebrated in South Kurdistan 

  Thousands of people in Sulaymaniya city of South Kurdistan poured out into the streets to celebrate the victory of the HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) in Turkey's elections.
• Êzîdî Assembly for Construction congratulates HDP victory 

  Êzîdî Assembly for Construction has congratulated the HDP victory in Turkey's elections, saying that; “Sinjar resistance will also be crowned with victory and make the victory of peoples permanent.”
• Demirtaş: Victory of people for freedom, democracy and peace 

  In his election statement, Demirtaş stated that there is no longer a need for the light bulb, and HDP’s sun is enough for 81 cities across Turkey.
• Yüksekdağ: We overthrew the threshold all together 

  HDP co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ said she dedicates the victory to the happiness of the peoples of the country, who all came together and united despite their differences and despite the distances created amongst each other by the ruling elite.
• HDP has 7 seats in Van, AKP gets 1 

  98 percent of the votes has been counted in Van, according to which HDP received 75 percent of the votes, granting 7 deputies in parliament while AKP had only one with 18 percent.
• HDP the first party in Kars and Ardahan 

  HDP achieved the highest rate of votes in Ardahan and Kars where the majority of the votes have been counted.
• New Life Parliamentarians: Victory for peace 

  Istanbul Parliamentarian candidates from HDP follow election results in HDP’s Istanbul 3. District Crisis Desk and described the results as “the victory of peoples in Turkey and peace.”
• 11 HDP candidates elected in Istanbul 

  With 99 percent of the votes counted in Istanbul, HDP has succeeded to have 11 seats in the parliament receiving 12.43% of the votes.
• Kobanê people celebrating HDP victory 

  Hundreds are pouring out into the streets in Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava, to celebrate the HDP victory in Turkey and North Kurdistan after the announcement of unofficial results.
• ‘New Life’ candidates in Parliament 

  Ziya Pir, Dilek Öcalan, Garo Paylan, Feleknas Uca, Turgut Öker, Müslüm Doğan and Hüda Kaya enter the parliament as “New Life” candidates.
• PM Davutoğlu speaks for one minute 

  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu who was being expected to make a balcony speech spoke for only one minute from an election bus as he left his house in Konya for the capital city of Ankara.
• AKP collapses in the Kurdish region 

  AKP has lost a majority of its votes in the Kurdish region.
• 6 cities send only HDP deputies to parliament 

  Six cities in North Kurdistan will be sending only HDP deputies to the parliament; Dersim, Şırnak, Hakkari, Muş, Ağrı, Dersim and Iğdır.
• Preliminary election results: HDP receives 11 % of the votes 

  Preliminary election results: HDP receives 11 % of the votes