“Van” is restless/ Turkish police turn to water sprinklers

report Mehr News Agency, citing Sputnik, mass demonstrations protesting the results of the municipal elections in the Turkish city of Van led to the intervention of the police.

Despite the ban on holding mass demonstrations in Van province, supporters of Abdullah Zidan, the winning candidate in this province, protested today. The police of Van province had to use water cannons to disperse the protestors.

Earlier Reuters reported that Turkish government officials on Tuesday prevented the newly elected mayor of the Pro-Party Party from taking office. Kurds united in the city of Van and announced the re-holding of voting in this city. The region where the party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the ruling president in Turkey, suffered defeat in the municipal elections.

During the recent local and municipal elections in Turkey, for the first time in the last two decades, the Justice Party And the development has lost the first place and is the second party in Turkey in terms of votes.

Turkey’s municipal elections have ended and contrary to the claims of the Justice and Development Party and Erdogan’s government, the people did not show up once Trust the mayors of the ruling party. Turkish people registered the lowest turnout in the last 20 years with 77% participation in yesterday’s elections. It is said that inflation, poverty and dissatisfaction with the performance of the government and the ruling party were the most important factors of low participation.