Turkey lifts ban on some Kurdish candidates, results remain to be seen
April 22, 2011Turkey’s High Election Board on Monday the 18th banned 12 Kurdish politicians from running for the national election set in June. The 12 politicians are among the dozens of independent candidates running which the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) …
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