Voting slips handed over to soldiers in 3 Kurdish cities

In Amed, Siirt and Van, election officers and voting slips were transported via military helicopters in several areas.

In Amed, election officers and the bags with the voting slips were picked up by helicopters from the Gendarmerie Air Group Command from district centers.

The bags were taken to Lice’s Üçdamlar, Oyuklu, Tepe and Kayacık neighborhoods, as well as Hani’s Toçular, Dicle’s Yokuşlu and Kulp’s Bayır and Aygün neighborhoods.

In Siirt, helicopters took off from the 3rd Commando Brigade Command and picked the election officers and voting slips from Eruh, Pervari and Şirvan district cecnters. The officers and voting slips were taken to 12 election zones in 3 districts.

The Gendarmerie Command in Van intervened with voting procedures in some neighborhoods in the Çatak district. A military helicopter picked up election officers and the bags of voting slips from the Konalga Gendarmerie Outpost and took them to the Sırmalı, Dokuzdam and Beğendik neighborhoods 80 km from the city center.

This transport via helicopters was claimed to be “for security reasons”, but the mobilization of soldiers casts a shadow on the transparency of the elections. Which “officers” were present in the helicopters remain unknown.