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Report: Turkish tourists cancelling Lesvos holiday due to … migrants
In the “strange but true” category, media reports from the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos (Lesbos) have nearly three-fourths of the Turkish tourists that booked holidays on the island for a coming Muslim holiday cancelling due to the … migrant crisis.
Greece’s state-run news agency quotes a noted travel agent on the island, who specializes in Turkish tourists, as stating that:
Gezi victim's brother on HDP candidate list for Nov 1 polls
Mustafa Sar?sülük, the brother of Ethem Sar?sülük, who died during the Gezi Park protests in 2013 when a police officer shot him, has been named a candidate for the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) in the Nov. 1 general elections.
The HDP candidate from Ankara said he will be the representative of the Gezi Park uprising two years ago.
HDP slams president, PM for ignoring Kurdish issue, hindering democracy
The Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has bitterly criticized both President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu for the stances they displayed during a mass "anti-terrorism" rally aimed at supporting the ongoing offensive against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), calling the president "irresponsible" and the prime minister "unauthorized."