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Kurdistan: Diyarbakir and Gaziantep 35 images Created 21 Jan 2017

Taken around the election time in 2015
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  • Many thousands took to the streets waving Kurdish and HDP flags, cheering and honking car horns to celebrate the HDP electoral success in Diyarbakir. Diyarbakir is a mainly Kurdish city of around one million inhabitants.
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  • In the lead up to the Turkish general election on June 7th 2015, pro-Kurdish party HDP drew many tens of thousands of people to rallies across the country. In the Kurdish cities of Batman and Diyarbakir numbers in excess of 60,000 people turned out to support the HDP.
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  • Diyarbakir, Turkey. Shoes and identity cards lay strewn in pools of blood.
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  • Celebrations of the HDP electoral success in Diyarbakir
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  • Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate the HDP electoral success in Diyarbakir, groups of HDP supporters and Kurdish dancers celebrated into the night.
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  • Two bombs went off in the crowd in Diyarbakir, Turkey, five people were killed and more than 400 injured were carried to ambulances. Violent attacks against Kurdish people are a motor behind displacement in the region. Under Informed Consent rules, the photographer would need to approach each of the people in the photograph to let them know how their images might be used. While it is feasible to do that, in this instance it would have had to be done in an ambulance, a Kurdish/English interpreter would be needed, and the unfolding of events around this scene would have been missed.
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  • Celebrations of the HDP electoral success in Diyarbakir
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  • The Turkish police fired teargas into the crowd, choking the injured and those who were trying to help them.
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  • HDP supporters waved flags and waited for Selahattin Dermitas, the HDP leader, to speak. Minutes after this image was taken a bomb was detonated in the electricity transformer, that people are seated on top of in this image. Three people were killed and hundreds injured. The police teargassed the crowd as they tried to recover the dead and injured.
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  • In Diyabakir, the rally was peaceful as HDP supporters listened to speakers.
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  • Polling in the Turkish elections.
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  • Two days after the bombing of the rally, a polling sheet showed the HDP candidate in the Turkish elections. HDP passed the 10% electoral threshold, the highest in the world, with 13.9% of the vote, breaking the AKP control of the government. President Erdogan was unable to form a government and called another election for Nov 1st.
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  • Polling in the Turkish elections.
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  • Polling in the Turkish elections.
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  • Polling in the Turkish elections.
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  • Celebrations of the HDP electoral success in Diyarbakir
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