The Higher Electoral Board reversed its Monday's ruling "after a review of fresh court documents presented within the appeal period," the statement said.

The disqualifications, based on past convictions of the applicants and legal technicalities, had triggered violent Kurdish protests across Turkey, which continued to rage Thursday.

Among those who won a green light to stand in the June 12 parliamentary polls was iconic Kurdish activist Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament's human rights award who spent 10 years behind bars before being released in 2004, according the statement.

They included also two Kurdish members of the outgoing parliament, a prominent politician currently in jail and a well-know leftist intellectual.

The candidates are backed by Turkey's main Kurdish party, the Peace and Democracy Party, which fielded them as independents to go round a 10-percent electoral threshold that parties are required to pass to enter parliament.