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Andrew Wilks

Turkey’s opposition claim ballot irregularities in Sunday’s polls

Erdogan led the polls with 49.5 percent of the vote with Kilicdaroglu bagging 44.89 percent. [Stoyan Nenov/Reuters]

Istanbul, Turkey – Opposition parties in Turkey have reported thousands of discrepancies and ballot irregularities in the presidential and parliamentary elections, casting a shadow over the polls that took place on Sunday.

The Cumhuriyet Halk (Republican People’s Party, CHP) and the Yeşil Sol Party (Green Left Party, YSP) have voiced concerns and lodged complaints since Sunday about the discrepancies between recorded count made at polling stations and the votes entered into the Supreme Election Council’s (YSK) system.

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