Pressure at POs At 58 POs, observers have reported that there was an environment of pressure. The distribution of these POs according to provinces is: Urfa 21, Diyarbakır 10, Van 6, Adana and Manisa 4, Şırnak and Muğla 3, Mersin 2 and Hatay 1. The following are some examples regarding pressure at POs noted by observers on the forms: ‘There were too many police officers. They were everywhere.’, ‘There was a high number of police officers at the entrance to the school and in the corridors.’ ‘There was bus full of raid police, an armoured vehicle, and many cops in the school yard.’ ‘There were armoured vehicles without license plates in front of PRESSURE IN FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE ENVIRONMENT the school.’, ‘There were Cobra and Scorpion YES 58 14,9 armoured vehicles in the schoolyard.’ ‘He had NO 303 77,7 TOTAL 361 92,6 civilian clothes but was holding a rifle and was MISSING 29 7,4 walking around the ballot boxes (they said he was OVERALL 390 100,0 a cop).’, ‘The neighbourhood headman was TOTAL pressuring a voter. The ... political party observer was beaten and thrown out by the neighbourhood headman’, ‘A member of the Ballot Box Committee was battered by unknown persons. The Chairperson was verbally and physically assaulted.’, ‘The mayor’s people and the city council members were pressurising people.’ ‘We were attacked when entering the village. The Gendarmerie was there. They were sworn at.’, ‘The police prevented our observation’ ‘They told us that we can’t approach the ballot box area and could only walk in the corridors’. The pictures we took on our mobile phones were deleted by the police. They asked and checked our ID information. Pressure at POs 25 21 20 15 10 10 5 4 1 4 2 6 3 3 0 ADANA DIYARBAKIR HATAY MERSIN ISTANBUL MANISA MUGLA URFA VAN ŞIRNAK