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Opposition party official, two supporters killed at Turkey election precinct

Sunday’s parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey were
blood-spattered.


At an election precinct in Erzurum Province, the MP candidate from the
ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had started an argument
with the chairman of the regional office and several other members of
the opposition Good Party, reported Cumhuriyet newspaper.

But the argument became more heated, whereupon the AKP members fired
shots at the said opposition party official and his supporters.

The Good Party official and two fellow party members were killed on
the spot, while three others were injured and rushed to hospital.

Numerous cases of electoral fraud were recorded during Sunday’s voting
in Turkey.

As reported earlier, six candidates are running for president. But the
top contenders are incumbent President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan, and opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate
Muharrem İnce.

And even though eleven political parties are running for parliament,
solely four of them have a real chance to win parliamentary seats.

Four Armenians are running for the legislature, and Istanbul Armenian
MP and vice-chairman of the opposition pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic
Party (HDP), Garo Paylan, has the best chance to be reelected. The
next likely Armenian to win a parliamentary seat in Turkey is ruling
Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) serving MP, Markar Esayan.