Protests that started yesterday in the city after the certificate of election belonging to Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayor Abdullah Zeydan was given to the AKP candidate continued until early morning hour. In the city where the shutters were not opened today, people started to gather on the streets.
An attempt was made to lynch journalists who filmed AKP Provincial Chair Zeydin Kaya and his relatives pointing guns at citizens in Colemêrg.
The hunger strike launched by political prisoners in prisons to demand the physical freedom of PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan has entered its 129th day.
All applications made by the family and lawyers of Rojnews editor Suleyman Ahmet, who has been detained by KDP's intelligence agency Parastin for 162 days, have remained unanswered so far.
A reaction came from the family of AKP's Abdulahat Arvas, who was decided to be given the certificate of election instead of DEM Party's Abdullah Zeydan in Wan. Mehmet Sacit Arvasi said: "How will you move around among the Kurds? You have no honor. You just care money."
DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan described the failure to grant the certificate of election to Abdullah Zeydan in Wan as a "political coup". Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları said: "The decision must be reversed immediately."
Citizens in Şirnex center are protesting the intervention in the elections with “mobile” soldiers.
AKP, whose objection to the District Election Board regarding the Bazarcix (Dağpınar) Town Municipality ballot box results won by the DEM Party was rejected, appealed to the Provincial Election Board this time.
DEM Party announced that it will appeal to the YSK about the coup against the will of the voters in Wan.
AKP, who wanted to usurp the Bazarcix Town Municipality won by the DEM Party, appealed to the YSK.
Protests started all over the city after Abdullah Zeydan, who won the co-mayor of Wan Metropolitan Municipality, was not given the mandate. Fires were lit in all streets and avenues, and roads were closed to traffic.
In the Curnê Reş district, where the DEM Party won the municipality, a decision was made to renew the elections after the AKP objected to 15 ballot boxes.
DEM Party made a statement regarding the not given mandate of co-chair candidate Abdullah Zeydan in Wan, saying, "The political coup continues. We objected to the decision."
OHD announced that the Van Provincial Election Board gave the mandate to AKP's Abdulahat Arvas, who lost the election.
The withdrawal of the divested rights of Abdullah Zeydan, who won the co-mayor of Wan Metropolitan Municipality, with the "instruction" of the AKP is being protested. Shopkeepers in the city closed their shutters and protests began on all streets.