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Turkey and the World to follow local elections through Anadolu Agency [Anadolu Agency (Turkey)](Anadolu Agency (Turkey) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Anadolu Agency (AA), with a special team for Turkish Local Elections, is set to be a source of reference for national and international media. Turkey's local election results, in which 52,695,831 voters can vote in 194,310 polling stations, will be delivered in real time in the framework of AA's Local Elections 2014 Project. AA has created a 25-member team composed of reporters, technicians and software specialists to carry out the project. 95 thousand-member team ready?? Within the framework of the Local Elections 2014 Project, AA gathered a reporter team across the country.?1500 AA employees, 1200 of them in the field and 300 in offices, will send alerts on election day. In every school where polling stations are established there will be at least one AA election staff member. A 95 thousand-member team is ready to report the polling results. The team performed numerous tests of online and publications from the field after a rapid training program. The staff will deliver the results from 30 metropolitan areas, 51 provinces and 970 districts. Results will be served via a special software Necessary communication servers and their alternates were prepared to gather data over the internet, GSM and telephone and to deliver them via satellite, internet and ftp. City and district basis results of the election will be displayed in comparison with 2009 local election results, through the software for TV and webpages. The results in metropolises, cities and districts will be presented with graphics, while the results are renewed. aasecim.com A webpage, called "", was designed to meet the demands of millions of visitors. The results will be sent directly to the system via a special application for smart phones, and will be transferred through call centers. SMS for those who don't have TV and internet People will be able to learn the results via SMS also, as a result of the agreements with GSM companies. Those who use Turkcell and Avea will get the results by sending an SMS to 1523 after writing the license plate code of the city or the name of the district, which they want to learn its result. Elections results to be broadcasted in seven languages AA will publish and announce simultaneously Turkey's local election results from 81 provinces and 970 districts in seven languages – Turkish, English, French, Arabic, Russian, BHS (Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian) and Kurdish (Kurmanji and Sorani dialect). AA's project named "LocalElections2014" will cover the March 30 local elections with a special live broadcast featuring analysis, graphics, animation, photographs and visual footage. AA will broadcast each final result as breaking news for newspapers, TV channels and websites in different forms including graphics and visual footage. 80 percent of the national media chose to follow AA 80 percent of national newspapers and 81 percent of the leading TV channels are to broadcast the election results via Anadolu Agency. Election results from all 81 provinces and 970 districts will be published in 13 newspapers and 18 television channels. Google will publish election results via AA Microsoft, Mynet and 95% of other leading websites will use AA as their single source. Likewise, over 500 national and local news sites in Turkey will be using aasecim.com, AA's free platform created to announce election results online. There will be two separate but joint TV broadcasts from Istanbul and Ankara via Kral TV and Anadolu Local Broadcasting Platform. Around 200 local television networks are expected to use this service free of charge. There will be radio broadcasts as well. Around 100 local radio stations will broadcast election results via a joint broadcast by Kral FM. System under protection All systems through which AA will broadcast election results have been secured against cyber attacks and restrictions. The internet infrastructure of the whole system as well as links will be able to be accessed from multiple, backed-up and different areas. All around the world, people will be able to see the election results on aasecim.com using their mobile phones or tablet computers. In addition to data broadcast, AA will be making a special broadcast on the evening of March 30 to announce election results via news stories, photos and video footage. Titled "LocalElections2014" the special broadcast will continue uninterrupted until the official and final results are in. [email protected] (c) 2014 Andolu Ajansi Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company |