Voters in costumes create colorful scenes in Turkish local elections

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Turkey is going to the polls on March 31 to elect local administrators who will serve for the next five years. 61,441,882 registered voters will cast their votes until 5 p.m. (local time) in approximately 208,000 polling stations.

While Turkish elections are usually  overshadowed by irregularities and fights among political party representatives, some voters who came to the polling stations with different costumes, vehicles, and animals created colorful scenes.

Muhammet Bişgin, a national muay thai athlete in western Düzce province, came to Beyciler Primary School in an astronaut costume he designed himself.

69-year-old Hüseyin Şen, known as the "King of Adana" because he wears a king's costume and walks around the city wearing a crown, cast his vote at Bilge Kağan Secondary School in Sarıçam district of southern Adana province in his usual king's costume.

Some people came to vote with their pets at Çankaya High School in the capital Ankara's Çankaya district.