Gültan K??anak is the co-mayor of Diyarbak?r and a former MP for the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP)
and a long-term activist in the Kurdish women’s movement.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
