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• AKP supporters pressure and attack civilians in Kurdistan 

  With the support of Turkish state forces, AKP supporters pressure and attack civilians in Kurdistan.
• AKP-stamped ballots caught in Karşıyaka 

  Police caught AKP supporters who were carrying AKP-stamped ballots to Cemil Akyüz Primary School in İzmir, Karşıyaka.
• Election frauds in North Kurdistan 

  As voting began at 08:00 this morning, election frauds started in North Kurdistan.
• Demirtaş: I hope the votes will conduce to peace and freedom 

  HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş has cast his vote at Mevlana Secondary School in Sultanbeyli district of Istanbul.
• First election fraud by Turkish Airlines 

  Several Turkish Airlines planes that were scheduled to fly to Kurdistan from airports in Istanbul this morning took off earlier than their announced departure times, which prevented hundreds of citizens from voting.
• Crisis Desk announces the death toll: 3 dead and 402 wounded 

  According to the Crisis Desk report, 3 people died and 402 people got injured in Amed massacre. 16 of the wounded are still in critical condition.
• YPG: 31 gang members killed 

  YPG/YPJ killed 31 ISIS gang members and confiscated numerous military equipments in Rojava.
• Only 6 detained 3 days after the attack in Erzurum 

  Only 6 assailants from the mob that attacked the people joining HDP rally in Erzurum on 4 June and attempted to burn a person alive, have been detained today, 3 days after the attack.
• 12 years of AKP massacres 

  The attacks on HDP once again reveal the AKP plans to massacre civilians in order to stay in power.
• Prosecutor already obfuscates the investigation in Amed 

  Amed Public Prosecutor’s Office began to give signs of how the investigation in Amed will continue in future days. Prosecutors claimed that the death of 15 years-old Ramazan Yıldız is not connected with yesterday’s explosions.
• Aggravated isolation of Öcalan continues 

  HDP’s İmrali delegation last visited Öcalan on 5 April since when he has not been allowed to receive visits.
• Thousands flood to HDP rally field in Van 

  In the province of Van, where People’s Democratic Party, HDP, will hold its last election rally in the coming hours, tens of thousands have already started to flood to the rally field since the morning.
• KNK calls for vote for HDP to subvert the dirty game against the party 

  At least four people have died and hundreds have been injured in a deadly attack against the Kurdish people who gathered yesterday to support the HDP in the city of Amed days before the 7th June General Election.
• U.S: Airstrikes killing more than 1000 ISIS fighters a month 

  8 thousand ISIS members have so far been killed in Iraq and Syria in the airstrike campaign of the coalition forces since the beginning of the campaign in August 2014, according to the body count provided by an U.S General.
• Cluster bomb used in Amed massacre 

  As the Crime Scene investigation on Amed bombings continues, lawyers in the crime scene state that cluster bombs with thousands of small steel marbles were used in the massacre.
• DTK Health Assembly: 4 dead, 416 wounded in Amed 

  DTK (Democratic Society Congress) Health Assembly member Saliha Aydeniz has announced the figures of casualties from yesterday's twin bomb attacks at HDP rally in Amed.
• Khabur border gate closed to voters 

  It has been reported that KDP forces have closed the Khabur border gate between North and South Kurdistan to hundreds of people wanting to cross into Turkey to cast their votes for the general election tomorrow.
• HDP election observers detained in police operation in Istanbul 

  It has been reported that 12 persons, who would serve as observers of the HDP at the ballot boxes in two districts of Istanbul during the elections on Sunday, have been detained early this morning.
• Karasu: AKP instructed the massacre in Amed 

  KCK Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu stated that AKP instructed the massacre in Amed.
• Hospitals in Amed instructed beforehand to be prepared for casualties 

  It has emerged that Diyarbakır (Amed) Governor's office had instructed the hospitals in the city to be prepared for “probable injuries and deaths” in a written decree issued on 2 June.
• 'Davutoğlu and Erdoğan's statements have caused the blasts' 

  HDP Amed Parliamentarian Candidate İdris Baluken stated that the goal of the bombings was to create chaos and massacre hundreds of people.
• People not leaving hospitals in Amed 

  Following the massacre attempt in Amed, people have flocked to hospitals where hundreds have been taken after suffering injuries in double bomb attacks that hit the crowd joining the HDP rally late in the afternoon.
• 4 dead, 350 wounded in Amed 

  4 people died and at least 350 people got wounded after the bomb attack on the HDP rally in Amed.
• New reports say two dead, hundreds wounded in double blasts in Amed 

  New reports from Amed say that two have died and hundreds wounded in two successive blasts that happened during the HDP rally in the main Kurdish province.
• Demirtaş: We must be organized and successful in the face of attacks 

  Demirtaş called for organization and success after the blasts in Amed. Demirtaş said “The elections will be held no matter what happens. We will prevail, peace will prevail.”