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• Beştaş: Statements on the attacker’s identity are not convincing 

  HDP Adana Parliamentarian candidate Meral Danış Beştaş said they are not convinced by the government’s statements on the identity of the attacker in bomb attacks on HDP headquarters in Adana and Mersin.
• Demirtaş: Assailant of bomb attacks is linked to ISIS 

  "The assailant of these attacks has gone to Syria and left there after staying in an ISIS-held area with an acquaintance in ISIS for some time, Demirtaş said regarding the bomb attacks on HDP offices in Mersin and Adana.
• İHD: HDP got attacked in 6 Aegean towns 

  İHD Aegean Regional Representative Ali Aydır gave data on the attacks that have taken place in the Aegean region and stated that HDP got attacked in 6 towns.
• Attack on HDP members in Çorum, 4 wounded 

  Attacks on Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are increasingly ongoing ahead of the general elections to take place in Turkey and North Kurdistan on 7 June.
• Wise Persons Commission member: AKP will do anything to stay in power 

  Celalettin Can, a member of the Wise Persons Commission set up by the Government at the beginning of the process of resolution, said that the AKP government has frozen the process and would continue its policy of incitement after the election.
• Call for Central Anatolian Kurds to vote 

  The Platform of Central Anatolia Kurds (Platforma Kurdên Anatolia Navîn) has issued a statement calling on the Kurdish people living in Central Anatolia to vote for the HDP at the 7 June elections.
• AKP’s municipality distributes aid for refugees as election investment 

  It has emerged that the AKP-run Ceylanpınar municipality has distributed aid sent from Sivas and Ankara for the Syrian refugees in the town to the Arab Gellegöç nomads living in some villages of the district as an election investment.
• 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.