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Mavi Boncuk |

The Turkish local elections of 2019 will be held on or before Sunday, 31 March 2019 throughout the 81 provinces of Turkey. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1,351 district municipal mayors, alongside 1,251 provincial and 20,500 municipal Councillors will be elected, in addition to numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighborhood wardens (muhtars) and elderly people's councils. 

On 6 January 2019, six Kurdish parties agreed to join HDP after negotiations. The parties are Communist Party of Kurdistan, the Freedom Movement, the Revolutionary Eastern Culture Associations, the Human and Freedom Party, the Kurdish Democratic Platform and the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Turkey.