Violence against opposition parties and their premises,arrests and crackdown on press freedom hindered ability to campaign freely, report saysInternational observers of Turkey’s parliamentary elections have criticised the climate of violence and panic that preceded the vote, and saying the security environment,arrests of opposition activists and stifling of press freedoms combined to perform the campaign unfair.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, or has said he deserved respect from the whole world following Sunday’s result. But the international election observation mission that monitored the polls expressed serious concerns at a press conference in Ankara on Monday.
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Source: theguardian.com