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My youth was spent hating him. Of course we did not know that, in the coming decades, my generation and I would develop a bigger capacity for hate and bigger reasons to accommodate hatred. 

Those who came after him actually did broaden our ability to hate. 

Turkey is in anticipation of the results from the country's 25thgeneral elections, which were held on Sunday.

The polling stations closed at 5 p.m. local time, and electoral committees across the country's 85 voting districts have started the counting of the votes.

Opposition parties' economic promises, as well as free speech issues, the Kurdish problem and Turkey's foreign policy, have been the major electoral themes during the general election campaigns, but President Erdo?an's strong presence has overshadowed them all.
1) The 'non-partisan president'

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) parliamentarians will observe the upcoming parliamentary election in Turkey and provide leadership for the OSCE?s short-term observer mission, the organization said in a written statement on May 19.

Dacic condemns ceasefire violations

BELGRADE -- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic condemned on Sunday the ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine over the past few days.

He "voiced serious concern over the use of proscribed heavy weapons as well as the increased fighting in and around Donetsk and Shyrokyne," the OSCE office in Belgrade said.

In the run-up to the June 7 parliamentary elections, the top European security body has highlighted concerns in Turkey over incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s ?active role in the campaign,? as they have recommended the deployment of a team in order to observe the election.

DRVAR - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Wednesday that Drvar office of the OSCE Mission to BiH, which he opened today as the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, will explore modalities of support to the process of return of refugees and displaced persons.

The OSCE office in Drvar will certainly try to find ways to support this process, said Dacic.

Montenegro on Monday is taking the chair the Forum for Security Cooperation, the main independent body of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which works to increase military security and stability in Europe.

It will chair the Forum, which deals with some of the most fundamental political and military agreements between OSCE states, until the end of July.

A delegation of observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has held meetings with executives from opposition parties in Turkey?s parliament ahead of the June 7 general elections.

A sizable number of opponents to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are convinced that elections in Turkey have been rigged.