{"id":88574,"date":"2011-04-22T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=88574"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:01:20","slug":"kurdish-candidates-in-turkey-can-now-run-for-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/22\/kurdish-candidates-in-turkey-can-now-run-for-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish Candidates in Turkey Can Now Run for Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s top election body says it has partly reversed a decision to bar some independent Kurdish candidates from a national ballot, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/news-241734-turkey-kurdish-candidates-can-run-for-parliament.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Election Board (YSK) said Thursday eight candidates are now eligible to run for Parliament, reversing a decision which had barred 12 candidates from participating in June elections due to past convictions for links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK). The board&#8217;s decision came after an evaluation of appeals by the candidates. It says two other appeals were still being evaluated while two others were rejected.<\/p>\n<p>The YSK&#8217;s former decision, which came with less than two months left for the next general elections \u2014 slated for June 12 \u2014 has drawn Turkey deeper into tension and chaos. Thousands of protestors took to the streets mainly in the eastern and southeastern parts of the country, denouncing the YSK decision with violent demonstrations. One man was killed and dozens of others were wounded in clashes with security forces.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Tirkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl appealed for common sense in the settlement of the crisis sparked by the YSK decision. He said some of the barred candidates appealed to the YSK for the revision of the earlier decision. \u201cThe problem surrounding their [candidates&#8217;] nomination should be overcome,\u201d he noted. He later welcomed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in his office at the \u00c7ankaya presidential palace to discuss the controversial decision.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s top election body says it has partly reversed a decision to bar some independent Kurdish candidates from a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25369,10222,11960,24162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}