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The following article documents the issues and developments that have formed the basis of the political campaigns and the news agenda in the run-up to the June 2015 general election and the November 2015 general election. ==Civil liberties== The elections will be held at a time when Turkey's human rights record has come under increased domestic and international scrutiny, particularly from the European Union. The AKP's supposed commitment to human rights has thus also come under doubt, with the governments of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu both presiding over controversial curbs on civil liberties since 2011. Following proposals to limit rights to protest after the Autumn 2014 Kurdish riots, critics have accused the government of turning Turkey into a police state. A long-time ban against headscarves in the civil service was abolished in 2013. A spate of anti-government demonstrations began in May 2013 and continued throughout the year, protesting against the authoritarianism of Erdoğan, police brutality and media censorship. The government responded with what many critics perceived to be disproportionate force that claimed the lives of 22 people and injured over 8,000. Images of police using slingshots against protestors, the use of dangerous chemicals in water cannon spray and tear gas, as well as the involvement of many AKP youth wing members armed with clubs assisting the police drew particular outrage.〔 Erdoğan responded by calling the protesters 'looters' and refused to resign as Prime Minister. Since 2013, critics have accused media outlets of being under government control and the CHP have claimed that the AKP are the 'biggest media boss in Turkey'. A CHP party report claimed that 1,863 journalists have been fired during AKP rule. Turkey ranks first in the world in terms of imprisoned journalists, with 40 in prison according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. A new Internet law passed in 2013 has also allowed the government to block websites without court order, which was implemented in March 2014 with the banning of both ''Twitter'' and ''YouTube''. In February 2015, a 13-year-old boy was arrested after allegedly criticizing President Erdoğan on Facebook. In March, a Patriotic Party youth leader was arrested for calling Erdoğan a dictator, with the prosecution requesting a prison sentence of one year and two months. Three more Twitter users were taken into custody for allegedly insulting the President and other senior government officials on 13 March. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Issues and developments during the Turkish general elections, 2015」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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