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• Armed attack targets Kurdish students in Karabük 

  Kurdish youths studying in the northern province of Karabük, who have long been subject to attacks and threats by nationalist groups, were targeted by yet another attack.
• Italian Left Ecology and Freedom party voices support with HDP 

  Italian democratic socialist political party Left Ecology and Freedom has voiced support with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for the general elections to take place in Turkey and North Kurdistan on 7 June.
• YSK rejects HDP application by majority vote 

  The Supreme Election Council (YSK) in Turkey has rejected a fourth complaint by the HDP regarding President Erdoğan.
• Demands in European Parliament for PKK to be removed from 'terror list' 

  The AP 2014 Turkey Progress Report has been debated in the European Parliament. MEPs called for peace talks with the PKK to continue and for the organisation to be removed from 'terror lists'.
• Attacks on HDP to be included in European Parliament Turkey report 

  The Turkey Rapporteur of the European Parliament, Kati Pir, said attacks on the HDP would be included in the 2014 Turkey Progress Report.
• Attacks on HDP ongoing 

  Two election offices of the HDP in Isparta and İzmir provinces were attacked last night.
• German Green Party calls on voters to support HDP 

  The German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) has voiced support for the Peoples' Democratic Party /HDP) in the general elections to take place in Turkey and North Kurdistan on 7 June.
• Davutoğlu asking for votes from HPG guerrillas 

  The AKP, which is losing hope of gaining MPs in Batman, has written a letter to Hakan Tezel, a HPG guerrilla who died two and a half years ago, asking him to vote for the AKP.
• IHD: HDP targeted by 114 attacks during the election campaign 

  According to an IHD report, attacks on political parties have reached the peak during this year's election campaign between 23 March and 19 May.
• European Parliament condemns attacks on HDP 

  The Left Unity Group, Green Group and Friends of Kurds Group in the European Parliament in Strasbourg have issued a statement condemning attacks on the HDP.
• Turkish troops wound one human shield and arrest 13 

  Turkish soldiers fired tear gas at civilians trying to prevent a military operation in Yüksekova district, wounding one man. 13 people were also arrested.
• Voting begins in the U.S. 

  Polls have opened in the US where nearly 90,000 registered voters will cast votes in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Miami consulates.
• Police attack funeral: 1 child shot with a teargas canister in the head 

  Police attacked ten thousands of civilians who attended YPG martyr Mazlum Altekin’s funeral yesterday and shot a 14 year-old child with a teargas canister in the head.
• HDP delegation: Our application to meet with Öcalan remains unanswered 

  Member of the HDP İmralı delegation İdris Baluken answered journalists’ questions and stated that the official applications they have made over the past two months for meeting with Öcalan remain unanswered.
• İmralı delegation: AKP wants to end the process and start war 

  The HDP’s İmralı delegation has issued a statement after meeting KCK officials. The delegation said that the AKP and Turkish President Erdoğan were intent on ending the peace process and starting conflict.
• YXK activists occupy Sparkasse Bank 

  Members of Association of Students from Kurdistan have occupied the Sparkasse Bank in the German city of Saarbrücken to protest at the bank for freezing the account of an aid campaign for Rojava, West Kurdistan.
• YPG/YPJ fighters advance on ‘Abd al Aziz mountain 

  YPG/YPJ fighters are reported to be advancing in the foothills of ‘Abd al Aziz mountain (Jebel ‘Abd al Aziz), a significant base of ISIS gangs.
• Yüksekdağ: AKP cannot evade blame for attacks by ‘condemning’ them 

  HDP Co-president Figen Yüksekdağ said her party is being subjected to a series of deliberate, organised attacks, adding that it is the AKP government that is behind them.
• House of Kurdish students targeted by armed attack in Istanbul 

  An armed attack has targeted the house of a group of Kurdish students in Karabük district of Istanbul last night.
• KCK: Attacks came after AKP pointed at HDP as a target 

  KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency said that the AKP government, portraying HDP as a dangerous enemy, was responsible for yesterday's attacks against the party offices in Adana and Mersin.
• 'If we hadn’t been late the bomb would have gone off during the meeting’ 

  HDP party worker Ahmet Akçay talked about the bomb blast at the party’s Adana office, where 6 people, one seriously, were injured.
• Yüksekdağ: AKP is attacking out of fear of defeat 

  HDP Co-president Figen Yüksekdağ responded to this morning’s bomb attacks on the party’s Mersin and Adana offices, saying that they would continue the struggle without compromising their message.
• HDP Mersin co-chair: Blast caused by bomb placed into flowers 

  HDP Mersin branch co-chair Didar Gül said that the blast was caused by a bomb placed into flowers sent to the party office yesterday, while it remains yet unknown who the flowers were sent by.
• HDP: Attacks will not intimidate us 

  The HDP Central Office has issued a statement regarding the bomb attacks on the party’s offices in Adana and Mersin, saying: “Attacks will not intimidate us.”
• HDP Adana candidate: Attack was intended to kill 

  Adana HDP candidate Tugay Bek said the attack on the party’s Adana office was intended to kill, as the bomb had gone off at 8.30 am just after an election coordination meeting had taken place in the office.