We are conveying the vote rates announced by state-run Anadolu Agency of alliances and parties for 27th term parliamentary elections.

Vote count for the voting being held for Turkey’s 13th President has begun.

10 people coming from abroad to monitor the voting have been detained in four cities. Among the detainees are journalists and Communist Party of France delegation.

Voting has ended at 180 thousand and 65 ballot boxes for 56 million 322 thousand and 632 voters.

Erzurum Provincial Organization of the İYİ Party has announced that its Karaçoban District Chair Mehmet Sıddık Durmaz has been shot to death. The CHP District Chair has stated that two other people have also been killed in the shooting.

After the Supreme Election Council accepted the requests of 19 governorships that the ballot boxes be moved, some voters have had to cover a distance of 30 kilometers to cast their votes.

The police have detained three people reported to be carrying four sacks full of pre-sealed voting papers in the district of Suruç in Urfa.

There are allegations of election safety violations committed in the provinces of Mardin, Erzurum, Diyarbakır and Denizli.

There is news of election safety violations committed in Turkey’s southeastern province of Urfa, where four people were killed in an armed conflict during the election works.

56 million 322 thousand 632 voters will cast their votes at 180 thousand and 65 ballot boxes across Turkey today. The voting procedure will end at 5 p.m. local time in Turkey.

Northern Forests Defense has protested destruction of Strandzha Forests in Thrace for Russia’s natural gas line called “Turkish Stream”: “Russia will enjoy it to the utmost, Strandzhas will pay the piper”.

Rights organizations and professional chambers in Diyarbakır have filed a criminal complaint against the Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu on charges of “inciting the public to enmity and hatred, misconduct in office, fabricating crimes, slandering and attempting to influence fair trial”.