All the political parties who race to receive the highest number of seats have their eyes set on the number of first-time voters.
The Green Left Party and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are the two leading parties that have actively started attracting as many first-time voters as possible, mainly in the Kurdish regions of southeastern Turkey (Bakur).
Every party tries to attract the votes of these young people.
The Green Left party believes 75 percent of the first-time voters in the Kurdish regions, mainly Diyarbakir, will vote for them.
The Green Left Party is an umbrella under which the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will participate in the May 2023 elections. HDP formed the party as a precautionary measure as they are facing a court case seeking to shut them down.
The Labour and Freedom Alliance, which includes the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Friday announced their support for opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu who is running to unseat incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in next month’s critical election.
Kilicdaroglu is the biggest challenger to face Erdogan who has been in power for two decades and oversaw transferring power from the parliament to the presidency.
