Suspicion of election manipulation: Erdogan sends soldiers to vote in Kurdish cities. At least 47,000 soldiers will be brought to Kurdish cities to vote as voters.

The opposition is outraged. However, this is unlikely to intimidate Erdogan. So far he has ignored rulings by his own constitutional court and the European Court of Human Rights. The president wants to help his AKP party win. “No mayoral office that the AKP gets with the help of voters brought in is legally and politically legitimate”