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TURKEY'S official Anadolu news agency announced today that the authorities have launched investigations into 10 foreign nationals in predominantly Kurdish regions.
Interior ministry officials told Anadolu that foreigners had attempted to “interfere” in combined presidential and parliamentary elections by posing as accredited observers.
They include three French citizens in Agri province and three Germans and four Italians in Sirnak, Batman and Diyarbakir.
Election officials have greatly reduced the number of ballot boxes and polling stations in Kurdish areas, affecting 144,000 voters and forcing many to cross military checkpoints to vote.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed as he voted yesterday that Turkey was experiencing a “democratic revolution.”
Opposition leaders Muharrem Ince of the secular Republican People’s Party and Meral Aksener of the nationalist Good Party expressed fears of possible fraud.
Election monitors criticised denial of entry to Andrej Hunko of Germany’s Left Party and Jabar Amin of Sweden’s Environment Party as observers, ”based on their publicly expressed political opinion.”
