The upcoming March 31 local elections in Turkey will be neither free nor fair, according to the EU-Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) backed by Kurdish groups. In a March 13 press release, the EUTCC said: “The local elections are currently making headlines due to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement that the upcoming local elections would be his last ever. This is not very credible, especially as the deputy [ruling party] AKP chairman and former justice minister Bekir Bozdag stated that he could technically run one more time if the parliament c…