In the general elections held in Greece on May 21, the votes of Turkish candidates in Western Thrace increased compared to the general elections in 2019.
According to the data of the Greek Ministry of Interior, 4 Turkish candidates from Western Thrace were eligible to enter the Hellenic Parliament.
In the 2019 general elections, parliamentary candidates from members of the Turkish minority in Rhodope State received 25,433 votes, while in the May 21, 2023 elections, this number increased from 676 to 26,109.
In the province of Ksanti, parliamentary candidates from the Turkish minority obtained 16,558 votes in the 2019 elections, while the number of votes reached 17,841, an increase of 1,283 in the last elections.
Radical Left Alliance (Syriza) candidate Ozgur Ferhat recorded the highest rise in the Rhodope region compared to the 2019 elections.
Farhat, who was not elected as a deputy by obtaining 5 thousand 384 votes in the previous elections, won the right to enter parliament by obtaining more than 12 thousand votes in the 2023 elections.
In the news in the local media, it was evaluated that the Syriza party managed to be the first in the country only in the Rhodope province thanks to the votes received by Ferhat.
While New Democracy was the leading party in 58 out of 59 constituencies across the country, Syriza held the lead in the electoral race only in the Rhodope region, which also includes Komotini.
On the other hand, while the number of votes of Hussein Zaybek and Burhan Baran, who were elected as deputies for Xanthi, increased, only the number of votes received by Ilhan Ahmed of the PASOK party, which was expelled from the Turkish West Thrace minority. Advisory Board last year, down.
Ozgur Ferhat and Hüseyin Zeybek of Syriza and Ilhan Ahmed and Burhan Baran of PASOK were elected deputies to parliament in Western Thrace.
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