AĞRI

En eastern Ağrı province, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party's official candidate Hazal Aras won the municipality with 51.07 of the votes.

Aras was elected co-mayor of Diyadin District in the 2019 local elections, yet the government appointed a trustee in her place.

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AFYONKARAHİSAR

CHP Afyonkarahisar mayoral candidate Burcu Köksal completed the election in first place with 50.73 percent of the votes and she became the first woman mayor of western Afyonkarahisar province.

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AYDIN

Özlem Çerçioğlu from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) won the western Aydın Metropolitan Municipality with 50.53 of the votes.

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BATMAN

In eastern Batman province, DEM Party’s woman candidate Gülüstan Sönük won the race after garnering 64.52 of the votes against radical Islamist Just Cause Party (HÜDA-PAR) that merely received 15.69 percent.

Thousands gathered and chanted “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom in Kurdish)” to celebrate Sönük’s victory against the misogynist HÜDA-PAR candidate in the stronghold of the far-right party.

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