Meral Danış Beştaş and Murat Çepni named as DEM Party's Istanbul candidates
After Başak Demirtaş, the wife of imprisoned former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, withdrew her candidacy for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, there was much speculation about who the DEM Party's Istanbul candidate would be. DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan announced that the party's candidates for Istanbul are Meral Danış Beştaş and Murat Çepni.
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Following the withdrawal of Başak Demirtaş, the wife of imprisoned former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality mayoral race, all eyes turned to the DEM Party.
Here are the highlights from the statement made by DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan:
"At this stage, we continue to announce our candidates within the scope of the urban consensus. We wish success to all the mayoral co-candidate nominees I will announce now, and to everyone walking this path with us. We say that the DEM will come and the tide will turn. I will start with the new locations and district municipalities we are announcing first."
The DEM Party's metropolitan candidates are as follows:
Antalya - Kemal Bülbül
Diyarbakır - Serra Bucak, Doğan Hatun
Konya - Gülbahar Gündüz, Bülent Kılıç
Malatya - Sivir Şimşek, Abdullah Ekin
Kahramanmaraş - Fatma Şıkyürek, Ali Ardıç
Mardin - Bengün Demir, Ahmet Türk
Trabzon - Leyla Üzüm
Van - Abdullah Zeydan
The provinces announced by Doğan are as follows:
Bilecik - Züleyha Çengel, Ömer Ege
Bitlis - Sümeyye Kızıltepe, Enver Barın
Bolu - Birsen Baş, Veli Saçılık
Çankırı - Azize Akoğlu, Veysel Yıldırım
Düzce - Alper Fatma Çelik
Edirne - Alim Hacanoğlu, Mevlüt Aykoç
Hakkari - Mehmet Sıddık Akış
Iğdır - Necla Kum, Mehmet Nuri Güneş
Kars - Arzu Savaş Derman
Kastamonu - Hatice Uçar, Yakup Akyol
Kırklareli - Arzu Fırat, Adnan Aygun
Siirt - Safiye Alakaş
Sinop - Filzi Yalçın, Erol Aydemir
Tokat - Dilber Demir, Reşat Yıldız
Yalova - Songül Hacıoğlu Dağ, Cengiz Topbaşlı
Istanbul - Meral Danış Beştaş, Murat Çepni