The first results show Erdogan ahead of Klikdaroglu

The first results of Turkey’s elections spread confidence in the Erdogan camp. Kilicdaroglu is behind the post. Live ticker.

• Ministry of External Affairs Gives a warning: Supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly engaged in brawls.
• Challenger Votes: Kemal Kilicdaroglu hopes to win Turkey’s election
• What’s in it Turkey itself Selection is made: 85 million voters in Turkey choose the president and parliament.

Updated as of May 14, 5:38 pm: The first official predictions for Turkey’s elections are available. According to this, incumbent Erdogan is four percentage points ahead of Kilicdaroglu with 45.71% with 49.85%. According to Turkish media, a little more than one percent of the total votes have been counted so far.

Updated as of May 14, 5:20 pm: The first results of the Turkish elections have been published in the Turkish media. According to the latest reports, Kemal Kilicdaroglu is ahead of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Hence, the challenger will come to 53.74 percent while the incumbent will only get 42.75. However, these results are not official.

Updated as of May 14, 5:01 pm: From 5pm German time, the media in Turkey are allowed to report the first results of the election. However, no report has been received so far. But it can happen at any time.

Updated as of May 14, 4:45 pm: According to Canan Kaftancıoğlu, head of the Istanbul CHP, turnout in the metropolis is high. More than 90 percent of those eligible are said to have voted in Istanbul. It’s time to “protect your voice together by keeping track of the vote count.”

Opposition parties report suspected cases of election fraud in Turkey

Updated as of May 14, 4:15 pm: According to the opposition, electoral fraud is first suspected in Turkish elections. Video from Sanliurfa to the east allegedly shows someone stamping dozens of illegal ballots for Erdogan. “Our lawyers were referred to the concerned village and an appeal was made to the district election committee,” reports CHP MP Oghuz Khan Salesi.

Updated as of May 14, 4:00 PM: Polls are officially closed in Turkey. The results are not yet known. Now the big numbers begin.

The Foreign Office has issued a warning regarding the Turkish elections

Updated from May 14, 3:45 pm: The Foreign Office has warned that elections in Turkey could lead to riots. “It cannot be ruled out that the few hours after polling stations are closed will turn out to be restless,” the authority wrote to a Turkish journalist. ARDOliver Meyer, in turn, issued a warning on Twitter.

Videos purportedly showing acts of violence around polling stations in Turkey are already circulating on Twitter. Fighting reportedly took place in Istanbul and elsewhere.

Updated from May 14, 2:55 pm: Apparently, despite all polls, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is certain to win the election and defeat his rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. After each election victory, Erdogan now traditionally delivers a speech on the balcony of the headquarters of his Islamist conservative AKP – either in Istanbul or the capital Ankara. This time it will probably be Ankara. Journalists reported on Twitter that the balcony had been cleared. Also, sound systems have already been installed in front of the party headquarters.

Türkiye Election: Imamoglu votes in Istanbul

Updated as of May 14, 2:10 pm: Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is popular among opposition voters. If the opposition wins the election, he will be one of seven vice-presidents of candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu. He voted in Istanbul’s Beylikdüzü district. After casting his vote, he said that he hoped that the results of this election would bring a strong democracy in our country. Imamogulu said that all the votes should be counted and the result accepted. Before Kilikdaroglu’s candidacy, he was considered one of the opposition candidates for mayor of Istanbul.

Election in Turkey: Erdogan and his rival Kilicdaroglu vote

Updated from May 14, 12:21 pm: Turkish opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu casts his vote in the capital Ankara during Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Klikdaroglu spoke to reporters. “We all miss democracy,” he said, according to Hulk TV. “You will see, spring will come,” he added, and thanked all Turkish voters before leaving the polling station with his wife, Ms. Kıldıröğlu. “Spring is Coming” is also the slogan of the Turkish opposition coalition.

Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan voted in Istanbul. His wife Emin Erdogan also appeared. He stood in the queue and interacted with other voters. After the vote, Erdogan issued a brief statement. “The election has taken place without any problems so far,” he insisted, citing his interior minister Suleiman Soylu, according to broadcaster A Haber. “It is important that as many voters as possible vote to show the strength of Turkish democracy,” Erdogan said.

Presidential Election Türkiye: Votes for Ince remain valid even if withdrawn

Updated May 14, 8:54 am: Voting for presidential and parliamentary elections has begun in Turkey. Between 8 am and 5 pm local time, a total of 60,697,845 voters can vote in 191,910 ballot boxes. 4,904,672 people will vote for the first time in today’s election. Voters can vote for four candidates in presidential elections and 24 parties in parliamentary elections.

Muharrem Ince, one of the four presidential candidates, withdrew days before the election. However, the High Election Commission YSK announced that the ballot papers will not be reprinted. The authority declared that even if he withdraws, the votes for Ins will be recognized as valid. Therefore, Turkish voters will see four more candidates on the ballot.

Presidential Election: Turkey elects a new president and a new parliament

Report from May 13: ANKARA – Tensions are rising from Istanbul in the west to Iqdir in the far east. Turkey’s 85 million voters will elect a new president on Sunday (May 14). And for the first time in 20 years, there are signs of change at the top of the country.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has governed Turkey with his AKP since 2003 – initially as prime minister and since 2014 as the country’s president. His rule has taken on increasingly authoritarian characteristics in recent years. Freedom of the press was further restricted, and opposition parties complained of systematic repression. This is one of the reasons why almost all major opposition parties formed a coalition against Erdogan. Its candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu is its president. Along with the popular CHP politician, Erdogan should be ousted after Turkey’s 2023 elections.

Kilicdaroglu is leading in Turkey’s election polls

Opinion polls in Turkey should give the opposition a boost of confidence. Kilicdaroglu leads almost all studies, albeit narrowly. After the third candidate in the coalition, Muharrem Ince, withdrew his candidacy, there are now all signs of a showdown between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu. The pro-Kurdish HDP, on the other hand, decided against its own candidate in order to bolster Kilikdaroglu.