A little over three thousand ballots have been set up in Amed throughout the city. Voting started at 08:00 in the morning, and voters started gathering in front of schools with the ballots starting from 06:00.

Within a few minutes of voting, irregularities were detected. The OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) committee caught unstamped voting slips in the Akkoyunlu Elementary School in the Peyas neighborhood of the Kayapınar district. The committee prepared a report for the caught voting slips and noted that police officers were present in the school.

In the Yunus Emre Elementary School in the Bağlar district, ballot officers who were not from the AKP were not allowed in. The officers were able to take their posts after the HDP Legal Commission intervened.

A man named Cengiz Çiçek was seen with empty envelopes in the Mesut Yılmaz Elementary School in the same district, claiming to be from the YSK (Supreme Board of Elections). The man was apprehended by ballot officers from the HDP and CHP and handed over to the police. The police informed the District Electoral Board Chairperson and said the judge on duty didn't give any such task. When voters protested, Çiçek was taken away from the school by the police.

EXCITEMENT FOR THE ELECTION IN RUINED CITIES

In Şırnak and its districts, which are among the places the AKP regime committed severe war crimes in 2015-16, the people rushed to the ballots early in the morning. Thousands of homes had been demolished and hundreds had been killed during the curfews in Şırnak center, Cizre, Silopi and Idil districts, but that didn't stop voters from forming long lines at the voting stations. Cizre's Cudi and Nur neighborhoods, where the destruction was most widespread, stood out as the places with the highest interest.

Hundreds gathered in front of schools early in the morning in Mardin's Nusaybin district, which is home to some 61.000 voters.