ANKARA - Ankara is not warm towards the decision of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (COEPA) to send delegation to Turkey to monitor the general elections.
High-level diplomatic sources told A.A correspondent on Tuesday that this was not the first time that a general elections was being held in Turkey.
The sources stressed that there were no doubts about the results of elections in Turkey which had been held for half a century.
Besides, the sources said, ''there were not anything that Turkey would hide.''
The sources noted, ''Istanbul Document was signed at the end of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Summit in Istanbul in 1999. With this document, all the participants approved that OSCE delegations could monitor the elections in their countries under the title of observer.''
Drawing the attention that Council of Europe (COE) countries were OSCE members at the same time, the sources said that the demand of the Council to send an official delegation to Turkey to monitor the November 3 elections was baseless.
The sources stated, ''if they want, OSCE delegation can come and there is no need to make the same call twice.''
COEPA President Peter Schieder had said that they did not have any doubt that a fair elections would be held in Turkey. However, he had noted, they wanted to send a delegation to Turkey within the framework of the screening process launched in 1999 related with the developments marked in Turkey in human rights and democratization.
Turkish delegation chairman Uluc Gurkan had stated that Turkey, a founder member of COE, was against the decision of COEPA to send a delegation to Turkey to monitor the elections.