Amed (Diyarbakır)- While there are several days for the presidential and parliamentary elections that will be held in Turkey on May 14, 2023, the political parties speed up their election campaigns. The Green Left Party carries out its election campaign by holding meetings with people, rallies in many cities and many other activities.  NuJINHA spoke to some women living in Amed about the elections.

 ‘Vote for the Green Left Party, for freedom’

 One of the women of Amed, Bahar Kara told us that she would vote for the Green Left Party, for equality and freedom. “Our votes are for the freedom party, the Green Left Party. We will vote for it because we want to live freely by speaking our own mother language and practicing our own culture. There are signs in Arabic and Turkish everywhere, but there are no Kurdish signs. The AKP has been deceiving people for 20 years. The AKP has done nothing for us, the Kurdish people, until now. We will vote for our party,” she said.

 ‘The AKP has done nothing but caused the pain’

 Fatma Kutlay, another woman living in Amed, thinks the AKP-MHP government has done nothing for them but caused the pain. In the interview with NuJINHA, she said, “We want peace and unity; however, we are oppressed by them (The AKP-MHP government). We have experienced many things and now say enough. We want the AKP to disappear. Our people should not vote for the AKP. The AKP has done nothing for us but caused the pain.”

 ‘We will win victory’

Calling on the Kurdish people to unite, Zerife Güneş said, “We will vote for ourselves and our other vote is for Kılıçdaroğlu. We will vote for ourselves so that the AKP will lose. We are the mothers of prisoners and martyrs. We must send 100 MPs to the parliament. Our main aim is that. We will win. Kurdish people must vote for the Green Left Party.”

 ‘We must protect the ballot boxes against thieves’

Makbule Açıkgöz called on everyone to protect the ballot boxes on the election day. “We know that we will win. But we also know that there are many people who want to steal our votes. After casting our votes, we must protect the ballot boxes against thieves instead of going home. If we do not protect our votes, no one will protect them.”

 Makbule Açıkgöz told us that she would vote for the Green Left Party on May 14. “The AKP has already lost. What it does is its rearguard action. We will cast our votes for the people who are behind bars.”