OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will on Wednesday meet with the President and Foreign Minister of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter, who is OSCE chairman-in-office, and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on the fringes of a conference on antisemitism.

Turkey’s top election body has declared an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) interim report on the country’s state of affairs in the run-up to the presidential election as “groundless.”

There is no clear separation between the Turkish government’s activities and the election campaign on the side of the government, says Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens from the OSCE The gap between Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s election campaign for the presidency and his activities as the current prime minister is vague, according to the head of the Organization for Security and Co-operati

Presidential hopeful Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu has raised concerns over the transparency of the upcoming elections, as he has said some additional 18 million ballot papers were printed.

He based his claims on the figure presented by a recent study by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) group.

BELGRADE - The deadline for international observers applying to monitor the upcoming early parliamentary elections in Serbia expires on Thursday, while domestic observes have four more days to submit their applications to the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK).