Army of lawyers prepares to defend high-stakes Istanbul poll
Both sides deploy thousands of election monitors as tension rises ahead of vote rerun
Merve Yavuz was 1,500 miles from Istanbul when Turkey’s election board cancelled the result of the city’s mayoral election. But the corporate lawyer, who lives in France, decided she had to find a way to help in the rerun of the vote. “I said: I can’t stand this. I can’t just sit at home and watch — I have to go,” she said.
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