Two out of Turkey’s top three cell phone carriers don’t offer services in any Kurdish dialects despite having millions of users whose mother language isn’t Turkish, English or Arabic, which are the only languages Türk Telekom and Vodafone work with.
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has prepared a report on trustees, saying that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ignored the votes of millions of people via sacking 47 mayors in the past year.
According to the report, 18 co-mayors were arrested and the appointment of trustees resulted in ignoring the 4,268,558 voters who cast their votes in the March 31, 2019 local elections.
The government has taken over 47 of the 65 municipalities won by the HDP in the Kurdish-majority provinces.
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