Repression and fraud attempts increasing

2015-06-07 18:11:20

DİYARBAKIR (DİHA) - While voting continues in North Kurdistan and Turkey, repression on voters and election observers as well as attempts at fraud increases in the main Kurdish province Diyarbakır.

It has been reported that police forces and the members of Hür Dava Party an Islamist party mainly organised in North Kurdistan, put pressure on the people in Bismil and Silvan districts, while a person has been caught in Bağlar District Election Committee Office filling sacks with stamped envelopes.

In Bismil district of Diyarbakır, police forces are patrolling in an armoured vehicle with no license plate on and putting pressure on voters in the garden of Ziya Gökalp Primary School where ballot boxes are set. HDP Diyarbakır candidate Feleknas Uca who intervened the situation was responded that police officers are being transported in those vehicles.

In the meantime, reports are coming through that members of Hür Dava Party enter the schools in Silvan district with guns in an attempt to intimidate the voters.

Meanwhile a person in Bağlar District Election Committee Office was noticed filling sacks with stamped envelopes. The crisis desk of the HDP has sent a lawyer to the Election Committee Office to investigate the issue.

(nt)