In South-East Turkey, a pro-Kurdish campaign under pressure In the Kurdish-majority city of Batman in south-eastern Turkey, the main pro-Kurdish party is campaigning despite coming under daily attack from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the imprisonment of dozens of its mayors. Defiant in the face of threats, the People's Democratic Party, or HDP, hopes to mobilise its supporters in the March 31 vote to capture municipal mayor posts and local councils. After a state of emergency following a 2016 failed coup against Erdogan, the government installed local administrators to replace 95 of the 102 municipalities held by pro-Kurdish mayors since the 2014 local vote. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES at an HDP rally