Presidential candidate Salahaddin Demirtas, candidate from pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, set a record by getting 3.9 million votes during the Sunday presidential elections in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Previously the votes of Kurdish party’s candidates did not exceed 2.5 million. He got many votes not only in Turkey’s Kurdish-populated east, but in the western part of the country.<\/p>\n
Demirtas has repeatedly condemned Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire calling on Turkish authorities to acknowledge the crime.<\/p>\n
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