Kurdish party threatens Turkey election withdrawal
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Turkey's main Kurdish party threatened to withdraw from June's parliamentary election after 12 independents were barred from standing in a move drawing criticism on Tuesday from across the political spectrum.
The High Election Board annulled the applications by the 12 candidates, seven of whom were backed by the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), due to convictions which prevented them from running. We will discuss all the alternatives including not entering the election and withdrawing all the candidates," BDP co-chairman Selahattin Demirtas told state-run Anatolian news agency late on Monday. (Reuters)
