Posted on 01/19/2019 4:42:47 PM PST by Texas Fossil
ERBIL, KurdistanRegion— As Turkey prepares for its first local election in the post-coup era, political parties are racing to get every vote possible and opposition are finding irregularities on voter registration lists.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Tuesday that 53,099 Syrian refugees who have gained Turkish citizenship can vote in the upcoming local election.
Turkey will hold provincial and local elections on March 31.
The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has claimed that thousands of names of AKP supporters have been abnormally added to voter lists.
The pro-Kurdish party says it has visited mukhtars of the locations of supposed voters on the list and they have no record of them.
HDP has proposed forming a commission in parliament to look into the irregularities— in particular 1,108 in Hakkari, 506 in Mardin.
Reuters reported on Friday that the largest opposition party, Republican Peoples' Party (CHP), has identified 6,389 voters older than 100 and MP Onursal Adiguzel has asked the High Electoral Board(YSK) to investigate.
One case is the supposed 165-year-old Ayse Ekici, who would have been born in 1854 in Ottoman Empire under the reign of Sultan Abdulmecid. Another allegedly eligible voter is Zulfu, age 149.
CHP also reported that the numbers on voting roles have increased dramatically since the presidential election in June.
Heavy anomalies could be seen in areas where the AK Party lost by a small margin in previous elections, Reuters also reported Adiguzel as saying.
“We found 40 voters registered in the apartment of an Uskudar municipal parliament member,” he said, referring to the Istanbul district, where the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) narrowly prevailed.
Are they taking lessons from our ComDem Party in the US?
Sounds like a banana republic, or California.
Russians..
...the largest opposition party, Republican Peoples' Party (CHP), has identified 6,389 voters older than 100... One case is the supposed 165-year-old Ayse Ekici, who would have been born in 1854 in Ottoman Empire under the reign of Sultan Abdulmecid. Another allegedly eligible voter is Zulfu, age 149... Heavy anomalies could be seen in areas where the AK Party lost by a small margin in previous elections... “We found 40 voters registered in the apartment of an Uskudar municipal parliament member,” he said, referring to the Istanbul district, where the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) narrowly prevailed.
Yes, it is an Islamist dictatorship. Freedom of expression does not exist. A free press does not exist. And those are ancient issues.
During the Ottoman Empire, when the Gutenburg press was invented, it was banned from use. Finally when it was allowed, it was allowed in foreign languages not in Arabic.
There is no longer Rule of Law in Turkey, control is at the wishes of Erdogan. If a judge does not rule the way he likes? He is simply fired and another is appointed.
And they are a NATO ally? Headshake.
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