In Erdogan's Turkey even Newborns can vote: "Total number of ballots to be printed 73,849,080".

In Erdogan's Turkey even Newborns can vote: "Total number of ballots to be printed 73,849,080". (HD).

Turkey’s top election body has declared an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) interim report on the country’s state of affairs in the run-up to the presidential election as “groundless.”

“It is not possible to understand the groundless report [by the OSCE] which was prepared in a way to sway public opinion to think that the ‘YSK [Supreme Election Board] is arbitrarily printing ballots,’ [in other words] saying that there is no legislation even though legal provisions are clear,” YSK President Sadi Güven said in a written statement released late Aug. 7.

Güven’s statement came as a response to claims listed in an interim report by the Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM), which was deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on July 31.

In its report, the OSCE delegation stated that the ballot order of the presidential candidates was selected by the YSK at lottery and that it had already started printing ballots.

“The YSK informed the OSCE/ODIHR LEOM that the total number of ballots to be printed was 73,849,080. The YSK’s decision on the number of ballots to be issued lacks a clear legal basis,” the delegation said.

The report recalled that four parliamentary parties and groups who received the highest number of votes in the last general election have the right to appoint non-voting representatives to the YSK.

“The delegation didn’t believe us, even though the YSK members introduced [the HDP representative] and showed them a copy of the original assignment letter, [the OSCE delegation still] questioned the matter. While this behavior is both offending and unacceptable, it is also not understood why it was additionally noted in the interim report,” said Güven. Hmmmm.....'It's not important who votes but who counts the votes'Read the full story here.

Turkey ended 2013 with a population of 76,484,000 people, which represents an increasea of 856,616 people compared to 2012.

The female population is greater, with 38,135,579 women, representing 49.86% of the total, compared to 36,797,062 or 48.11% men.

Age structure:
0-14 years: 25.9% (male 10,682,900/female 10,201,965)
15-24 years: 17% (male 6,979,955/female 6,703,689)
25-54 years: 42.7% (male 17,375,544/female 17,097,927)
55-64 years: 7.9% (male 3,189,731/female 3,169,450)
65 years and over: 6.6% (male 2,422,983/female 2,870,341) (2013 est.)