Turkey elections: OSCE report finds undue advantage, including in media
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is taking on extensive new executive powers following his election win on Sunday. On Monday, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) presented its ODIHR report of the election observation mission.
Turkey after the elections (photo: Emrah Gürel/dpa)
"Voters had a genuine choice in the Turkish elections," opens the report by international observers, published after a press conference on June 25, 2018, one day after the snap elections in Turkey. "But the conditions for campaigning were not equal, with the incumbent president and ruling party enjoying an undue advantage, including in excessive coverage by government-affiliated public and private…