New complaints from Urfa as voting ends

AKP men were recorded stamping empty ballot boxes in bunches.

Violations and irregularities at polling stations keep coming through from Urfa, one of the places most hit by AKP violence and fraud in today’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

In video footages sent to the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Election Coordination Center, a man can be observed sitting in a polling station in the neighborhood of Altındamla in Haliliye district stamping a bunch of ballot papers in favor of AKP and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while another person puts the votes in the envelope.

The HDP people asked for explanation to the president of the station, getting "Unfounded claim" as an answer despite the video.

It was claimed that during the vote counting process the AKP got 155 votes while the HDP got 3.

In a separate development, Annick Samouelian, Marie-Christine Tisseyre, Joel Dutto and Mahmut Erol of the French Solidarité & Liberté Marseille delegation went to Suruç 'Namık Kemal' Primary School as observers and  were detained by the police in the school garden and released after the prosecutor's decision.

It is also stated that the foreign observer delegation going to Ceylanpınar district had also been taken into custody at the checkpoint set up in the Kepez district at the entrance of the district.

HDP and DBP members who went to Siverek Hüsnü Özyeğin Primary School to watch the counting operations were attacked by the supporters of the AKP deputy and candidate Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar who had surrounded the school.

As a result of the attack DBP District Co-Chairman Sedat Çelik had his head split and was taken to the hospital.