The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will send a delegation to Turkey to observe the upcoming Nov. 1 snap election.
According to information acquired by Today's Zaman, PACE will recruit a team of observers consisting of 30 to 35 individuals to monitor the Turkish polls on Nov. 1.
In the previous general election on June 7, a 29-member PACE delegation, led by Tiny Kox from the Unified European Left Group, visited Turkey to observe the polls.
On June 22, PACE released a report providing its observation delegation's assessment regarding the June election. Stating that Turkey needs to improve a number of things in its electoral process, the report suggested that the 10 percent threshold to enter Parliament should be substantially lowered, saying that it limits political pluralism.
Stressing media freedom as an area of "serious concern," the report noted that a number of media outlets and individual journalists critical of the ruling party were subjected to pressure and intimidation during the election campaign.
