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NEWS CENTER – With elections ongoing in Turkey, voters are doing everything they can to get to the polls in spite of repression.

Despite all the violence intended to send Turkey to the polls in a state of war, voters continue to make it to the polls. In Izmir, Fırat Oral—one of the 416 wounded in a bomb attack on a HDP rally in Diyarbakır on Friday—cast his vote today. Fırat, who is wounded in both of his legs and walks on crutches, flew to Izmir to cast his vote in the Bornova district.

In Istanbul, there have been electricity failures in some parts of Bahçelievler and Güngören. Also in Güngören, AKP elections propaganda remains up despite the ban on electioneering in place since 6 p.m. yesterday.

Unknown persons posted a racist message on the window store of a music shop in the Şişli neighborhood that had sold HDP buttons. Some AKP-stamped ballots have been seized in several areas of Istanbul. At a school in Bayrampaşa, an AKP elections board member was found to be carrying a gun. The individual has been arrested.

In the province of Antalya, a Syrian citizen was found trying to vote, but was stopped from doing so.

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