Elections

The voting for Turkey's June 7 general elections has ended in 54 countries with more than 1 million people voting abroad, mainly in European countries. 

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has said he is planning to hold an address to the nation to set a date and a list of questions for an upcoming referendum on voting rules.

Plevneliev has told reporters he is working together with Parliament to find a viable solution so that the vote takes place along with local vote for mayors and municipal councilors this autumn.

Turkish citizens living in Italy, UK, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia have begun casting their votes to participate in Turkey's general election that officially starts on June 7, boosting turnout with more votes from abroad.

More than 600,000 Turkish citizens abroad have so far voted in the general election, due to take place in Turkey on June 7.

A total of 685,158 Turkish citizens had cast their votes in embassies and consulates abroad as of May 28. Voting first opened on May 8.

I do not like the word ?tolerance? at all because it contains some kind of a favor, a grant. It is a show of thinking of one?s self as superior and tolerating those who are inferior to you, the ones you actually cannot stand. 

Who is able to tolerate who and on what grounds? What kind of a bragging is that? Tolerance does not contain equality.

In this predominantly Muslim country, whenever there has been a serious challenge to the ?white? Turks? secular democratic governance anchored to the West, the threat was defused through an anti-democratic intervention in politics by Turkey?s strong military. It was so in 1960 and 1971, as well as in 1980 and 1997.

A polling committee head living in Frankfurt has been caught while attempting to vote in the name of somebody else in Turkey's upcoming June 7 general election.

The president of the number six ballot box Hasan Tüfek, who is also a religious official in the city, cast his own vote on May 14 and took photos of himself while voting.

The main opposition alliance, the Democratic Front, urged the government on Monday to delete more than 70,000 voters from the central electoral roll because it said they could not prove that they have resided in the country continuously for the past two years.

As many as 18,260,276 voting citizens were recorded on May 5 in the Electoral Register, according to a release by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP), sent AGERPRES on Monday.

Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

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