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| 'Cizre decision' sparks political debate on poll security |
| 2015-09-24 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] A local election authority's decision to move ballot boxes from some neighborhoods of the district of Cizre following violence earlier this month has sparked a political debate on poll security as ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Supreme Election Board (YSK) said it would examine related requests next week. YSK President Sadi Guven said in a written statement on Sept. 22 that it was the authority to decide on processes about the elections. The Republican People's Party (CHP) member of the Cizre District Election Board, Kemal Cingu, said the decision was made by only one member of the board and that no one solicited their views. The Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) member of the Cizre board, Sertac Özkan, said the decision was null and void because it was taken during a meeting in which they were absent. The HDP will object to the decision, he added. The CHP's YSK member, Mehmet Hadimi Yakupoglu, underlined that the 79th Article of the constitution gives the YSK the responsibility to hold orderly elections and can use the same article if it determines irregularities in the decisions of provincial and district boards. "But, the case cannot apply to the Cizre example since the law regarding the principle provisions of elections and the electoral roll clearly bans moving ballot boxes. Moving [ballot boxes] can only be done if there are less than nine voters. A contrary decision could lead to obstructing the right to vote. If one cannot get into a place due to security, it also means the citizen cannot go out," Yakupoglu stated. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) member of the YSK, Kursat Turker Ercan, recalled the electoral body's previous decisions against moving ballot boxes. Acknowledging that there were places where security cannot be provided due to terror acts, Ercan proposed postponing the elections. |
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