As Turkey awaits a decisive parliamentary election, Vote and Beyond is preparing some 70,000 volunteers to monitor the voting process.

Set up following mass protests in 2013 over plans to build over Gezi Park in Istanbul, the organisation started work in the 2014 presidential election.

It monitored six cities. For the June 7 vote, it will cover 162 towns across 45 provinces.

Sercan Celebi runs Vote and Beyond, a movement its staff insist is non-partisan. He explained how the monitoring process will work.

“We don’t want any party to dominate and influence the election process,” he said. “They will do a two-fold job. The first will be visible: monitoring the ballot boxes. The second, behind the scenes: monitoring the vote-counting process. ‘Vote and Beyond’ will receive the results from 174,000 ballot boxes with its own software and compare them to official results. So, on election day, the whole process will be under control.”

Under Turkish law, Vote and Beyond is dependent