'headman' is a correct and usable word in English.
It is generally used to refer to a tribal leader or chief, or the leader of a small village or community. For example, "The headman of the village was responsible for mediating disputes between the residents."
Ilhan Altaç, a local village headman, would have agreed, but recently decided to pledge all 714 votes of his constituency to the HDP.
To escape, claims its headman, Abu Sakr, all but 14 of the camp's 160 families have fled deeper into the hills.
"Above all, why hasn't the government apologised?" asks Hasim Encu, headman of a village where victims were buried.Turkey's Kurds feel ever more alienated, and sympathy for both the BDP and the PKK is rising.
Money does play a big part, and at the village level many voters are subject to blandishments or intimidation from the local headman, who may in turn have been promised rewards or threatened with sanctions by politicians in higher tiers of government.
LIKE all Kurds, the headman of Shah Omar village has no shortage of grim tales to tell.
More playfully subversive, an anonymous blogger has drawn a rave following for his spoof version of Egyptian politics, which pictures the country as a village ruled by an ageing headman.
Of the 212,000 people it admits have been displaced, it says that 90,000 have voluntarily gone home.A headman in South Darfur describes one such homecoming.
A headman or official then accompanied them into the ballot booth and checked they voted for Mr Mugabe.Zanu-PF also inflated the count with ghost voters.
Now, with the area swamped with soldiers, the headman of Pulaong, the village nearest the temple on the Thai side, says dozens of small businesses have closed.
A middle-aged woman says the headman led the violence after meeting landowners.
A young man claims the Jat headman ordered attacks.
