Guns, Votes and Clans: How One Corner of Turkey Elevated Erdogan
A journey through villages in the war-torn southeast shows the story of last weekend's vote is anything but simple.
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Just after 10 a.m. on the morning of Turkey’s constitutional referendum, Suat Oztekin arrived with three colleagues to monitor the vote in a remote Kurdish village.
He left, he says, after being refused entry by the village headman, threatened at gunpoint with arrest and punched in the face by a soldier.