Diyarbakir prepares to vote: 'We cannot run a joyful campaign'

Air of resignation in Turkish city ahead of national elections, as pro-Kurdish HDP, whose rallies have been bombed, tell of police harassmentA few months ago, the streets of Diyarbakir, in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish south-east, were alive with celebration. The leftist, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP) had succeeded in entering parliament for the first time, granting Turkey’s 20 million-strong Kurdish minority unprecedented political representation. Now, though, o