The first partial results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey are already in fierce dispute between the parties broken out
Several hours after the polls closed, state media saw how the news agency “Anadolu” incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in front, while the opposition, with their top candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, claimed leadership.
Specifically, the opposition accuses the state medium “Anadolu”, usually the first to do so the counting results from Erdogan strongholds and Islamic conservative regions to publish.
The mayor of Istanbul and party friend of Kılıçdaroğlu, Ekrem İmamoğlu, called on the CHP party headquarters to ignore the numbers from Anadolu. “We don’t believe Anadolu”, he said. The news agency did “lost any seriousness”.
You are misleading all our people.
Ekrem Imamoglu via the news agency “Anadolu”
According to the party spokesman, the figures from CHP election observers drew “a positive image” – in contrast to the first results of “Anadolu”. The CHP will publish its numbers once a “significant number” of ballot boxes have been opened.
Like the Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet reportsİmamoğlu and his party colleague Mansur Yavaş called on the Turkish people in a press conference to not to trust the data from “Anadolu”. When the state media finally announces the official election results, this call could still have consequences.
“They direct the flow of ballot boxes as they see fit, thereby misleading our entire people. Nor are they ashamed. You are not credible. Anadolu News Agency is not fulfilling its function,” İmamoğlu said, according to the Cumhuriyet press clip.
“We have our own data. And we are clearly ahead. We will you (“Anadolu”) teach tonight how to add and subtract,” said İmamoğlu.
Election observers are said to have been prevented from doing their work
Meanwhile, in Germany criticism in the treatment of official election observersr loud in Turkey. According to Linke leader Janine Wissler, election observers from Germany were prevented from working in Turkey.
Some observers of a left-wing delegation were armed police officers prevented from entering the polling stations, Wissler told the AFP news agency on Sunday. The observers from Germany deployed in the Kurdish areas in the east of the country generally reported a high presence of armed police officers and soldiers.
Hakan Tas, election observer on behalf of the left, explained that not only Germans, but also Turkish independent election observers Access to polling stations was denied. As a result, the police and military flouted the agreement with the electoral commission, he told the AFP news agency by telephone.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), who are monitoring the Turkey elections with a total of 400 experts hardly been represented in the Kurdish areasTas added.
Tas also reported – mainly triggered by supporters of the Islamic-conservative governing party AKP – clashes in and in front of some polling stations, belonging to their temporary closureswhereupon “the already very long lines at the whale offices got even longer,” said Tas.
The left-wing delegation was there with 19 election observers at the invitation of the left-wing Turkish Yesil Sol Partisi. The sister party of the left in Turkey is the pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP. “We on the left want to help ensure that the elections are democratic and fair. Election rigging must not go unnoticed“, Wissler had explained in advance.
Even before the election, there had been numerous arrests and massive intimidation. “Many members of the opposition left the country before the election, as if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the election again feared arrest“Wissler told AFP on Sunday evening. (with AFP)
