Violations during Propaganda Period and Voting Security

Human Rights Association, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey and Independent Election Monitoring Platform announced their report on violations during propaganda period before the elections to be held on 24 June 2018.

Following the joint decision of MHP and AKP on 18 April 2018 for early elections, State President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared the elections to be held on 24 June 2018. On 26 April 2018, Supreme Electoral Council announced the official calendar of the elections. The following figures do cover the incidents from 26 April 2018 to 20 June 2018. These violations and pressures cover both the decisions, bans, preventions and interventions, attacks of administration and security forces and attacks and interventions by civilian groups.

Although the coming elections will be held under the state of emergency rule and so-called extreme security conditions, the following figures confirms that no necessary measures were taken for the security of political parties and their members during the propaganda period. Malpractice and misconduct of public servants were ordinary during the period of time. They did not do their duty.

All these violations and preventions raise the concerns about the security of voting. Therefore, we insistently call the officials to do their duty to secure the elections for the right to vote and stand for election. We hereby announce that the İHD and Independent Election Monitoring Platform will be working on the field to monitor the elections relying on the international monitoring standards.

We do call all eligible people to vote and to take part in securing their votes for fair and democratic elections. There are several platforms and initiatives working for voting security and we do appreciate their efforts. In order to contribute to the security of voting İHD branches will be open on the day of elections.

Polling clerks and observers should be present at the polling stations not later than 6.00 am. The electorates are also eligible to be present during the counting of the votes.

Human Rights Association – Human Rights Foundation of Turkey

Independent Election Monitoring Platform

Violations against and Pressures on

Political Parties and Their Members

Between 26 April 2018 and 20 June 2018