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Turkish Opposition Warns Legal Reforms Threaten Credible Elections

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Turkish opposition parties are warning that the raft of electoral reforms parliament passed this week pose a threat to free and fair elections. "They hid the package from the nation. Why? Because the law explains line by line how election fraud can be conducted," Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition CHP party, said Tuesday after the measures were approved. The reforms were so contentious that fistfights erupted in the parliamentary chamber among deputies as the...

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