Two weeks before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey, and as tensions rise in the country, two citizens' initiatives are training tens of thousands of volunteers to observe. The "Türkiye Gönüllüleri" – literally "the volunteers of Turkey" – will have a mission: to photograph each report signed by each polling station, then download it into a computer program that records, in real time, the counting of votes.
"Our goal is not so much to publish results as to archive data that can be used immediately in case of disputes," says one of the founders of the initiative.