Turkey at the polls, first data: Erdogan's candidates back in Istanbul and Ankara. Administrative vote which has the value of proof for the Erdogan administration, which intends to take back the "national treasure" Istanbul.
Accidents broke out on the sidelines of the electoral process not far from the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir. One dead and 12 injured in a village 30 kilometers from the capital of the Kurdish province of the same name, Turkish state TV TRT reports that the brawl broke out after a heated debate over a local candidate.