People with disabilities can easily vote in Türkiye

Necessary conditions have been created in Türkiye for persons with disabilities and the sick, who cannot visit polling stations, Report informs via TRT News.

Members of the Kirklareli City Electoral Commission delivered a ballot box to the house of 80-year-old Gulsevim Eskici, who was unable to come to the polling station due to an illness.

Members of the commission briefed the elderly woman on the procedure.

The portable ballot box will also be delivered to 17 other voters who cannot visit a polling station.

The voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye began at 08:00 local time (GMT+3) and will continue until 17:00.

There are more than 191,000 polling stations in the country, and 64,113,941 voters have been registered. Of these, about 5 million people will exercise their right to vote for the first time.

Three politicians are vying for the presidency - incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Republican People's Party chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Sinan Oğan, an Ata İttifakı (Ancestral Alliance) candidate. The fourth candidate, the chairman of the Fatherland Party, Muharrem Ince, announced his withdrawal from the presidential race three days before the elections.

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