{"id":3701,"date":"2017-04-18T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2017-04-18T09:17:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:32:19","slug":"turkish-referendum-was-unlevel-playing-field-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/3701","title":{"rendered":"Turkish referendum was &#8216;unlevel playing field&#8217;: monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey, April 18th, 2017 : Turkey&#8217;s referendum campaign was conducted on an &#8220;unlevel playing field&#8221; and the vote count itself was marred by late procedural changes, international observers said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The referendum took place on an unlevel playing field and the two sides of the campaign did not have equal opportunities,&#8221; said Cezar Florin Preda of the joint mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Late changes in counting procedures removed an important safeguard,&#8221; Preda added, referring to a move by the election authorities to allow voting documents without an official stamp. The referendum on Sunday was on granting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan extra powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Turkey, April 18th, 2017 : Turkey&#8217;s referendum campaign was conducted on an &#8220;unlevel playing field&#8221; and the vote count itself was marred by late procedural changes, international observers said on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/3701\" title=\"Turkish referendum was &#8216;unlevel playing field&#8217;: monitors\">[\u0925\u092a \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930&#8230;..\/Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}