The pro-Kurdish party DEM indicated on Sunday that it would present its own candidate for mayor of Istanbul at the end of March. The official name of the candidate will be revealed on February 9, announced to the press the spokesperson for the Party of People's Equality and Democracy.
Opponents suspect an arrangement with the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: letting the ruling AKP party win by depriving the opposition and the outgoing CHP mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of his support, in exchange for the release of Selahattin Demirtas.