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Halifax police investigating Monday morning Dartmouth death as suspicious | SaltWire #newsupdateISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Many of Turkey's Kurds are set to put aside party loyalty and back Tayyip Erdogan's major rival in Istanbul on Sunday, knocking the president's hopes of winning back the city he once ran, according to pollsters.
"They are confused and undecided," according to Yuksel Genc at pollster SAMER, who said 40% of DEM supporters had indicated they would vote for Imamoglu."They are considering voting for their party candidate but don't want the AK Party to win." It has been ravaged by thousands of arrests and the ousting of its mayors after previous elections, feeding voters' desire to hit the AKP nationwide while retaining DEM's dominance in the mainly Kurdish southeast and its largest city, Diyarbakir.
Erdogan, Istanbul mayor between 1994-1998, has slammed this as a"dirty bargain", seeking to stoke tensions between the parties.DEM's Istanbul mayoral candidate Meral Danis Bestas has dismissed the idea of tactical voting. "We have been fighting against trustees for more than 10 years, and in every election, the Kurds go to the polls with their enthusiasm, will and dignity and vote for the party they support," said private sector employee Busra Yenturk.