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Turkish nationals living in Kuwait line up to vote for the presidential elections at the Turkish embassy in Kuwait City//AFPix: There were 100 of them, all lawyers, determined to make next Sunday’s Turkish election as transparent as possible.
“The fact that the government is so close to losing for the first time makes us fear possible problems,” lawyer Ilke Yakupoglu said.Polls show Erdogan running neck-and-neck with opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who is also threatening to end his Islamic-rooted party’s control of parliament. “These elections are critical,” said Nuray Ozdogan, a member of the pro-Kurdish party who heads the Ankara lawyers’ association.Riven by both failed and successful coups, Turkey nonetheless has established a proud tradition of democratic transitions of executive power through the ballot box.
Turkey’s democracy was last tested when the commission annulled opposition star Ekrem Imamoglu’s defeat of Erdogan’s ally in Istanbul’s 2019 mayoral election.Scarred by the episode, Kilicdaroglu’s supporters plan to send 300,000 observers to the 50,000 polling stations across Turkey, doubling their number from the last presidential vote in 2018.
“We don’t really know what happened to the identity cards” of the dead and missing, Frank Schwabe, a German lawmaker who heads the Council of Europe’s monitoring mission, told AFP.
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