Polling stations in Turkey have closed, now chaos reigns: news agencies are reporting completely different results.
Polling stations in Türkiye were closed. Therefore, it will take at least a few hours for us to know whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be re-elected as Turkish head of state or if his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu prevailed and come to power. In the first round of the presidential election two weeks ago, incumbent President Erdogan narrowly lost an absolute majority. He is now running in a run-off against opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. About 61 million people in Türkiye are called to vote.
However, the first numbers became known, which could not be more bizarre. they were originally only expected on Monday night, now they are arriving by the minute. According to the Anka news agency (which is close to the opposition), Kilicdaroglu is currently extrapolated at 50.85 percent, ahead of Erdogan at 49.15 percent. According to state news agency Anadolu, Erdogan has 58 percent and Kilicdaroglu 42 percent. This applied when more than 40% of the votes were counted. Shortly after: Even after counting about two-thirds of all ballot boxes, the results were different.
Chaos always continues
According to state-run Anadolu news agency, incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan was ahead on Sunday after around 66 percent of polls were opened. He came in at around 55 percent, his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu at around 45 percent. However, at the Anka agency, which is close to the opposition, a direct confrontation broke out. So Kilicdaroglu was ahead with around 51 percent, Erdogan came in at around 49 percent. Voter turnout was around 85 percent. It was just before 7 pm: the Turkish head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is now ahead in the presidential elections, according to a news agency close to the opposition. After opening around 87 percent of the polls, Erdogan had around 50.6 percent on Sunday, just ahead of his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu with 49.4 percent.
According to information from “Spiegel”, 90% of the votes were counted. State-run Anadolu news agency saw Erdogan ahead with around 52.9 percent. The head of the electoral authority, Ahmet Yener, had already asked for patience and asked to wait for the final result. Update just before 8:30 pm: According to “CNN Türk” led with 52.08% of the votes, 99.2% of all votes have already been counted. His opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu got 47.92% of the votes. Erdogan thanked in advance everyone who made it possible for him to rule for the next five years, he told jubilant supporters in Istanbul on Sunday. He will be with his followers “until the grave.”
According to a politician, the largest opposition party, the CHP, complained about an attack on officials in the presidential elections in Turkey. In the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, party election observers were beaten and their phones broken because they opposed irregularities, parliamentary group deputy leader Özgür Özel wrote on Sunday, according to focus.de on Twitter.
Also incidents in Istanbul
According to media reports, there were also several incidents in Istanbul. Halk TV reported that opposition election officials were attacked in Gaziosmanpasa and Ümraniye districts. Online media senika.org wrote that lawyers were not allowed to enter polling stations at a school in Bagcilar district. There were discussions. The information could not be independently verified.
In the May 14 election, turnout was 87%, and a high turnout was also expected on Sunday. According to observers, this shows that voters attach great importance to voting in a country where freedom of expression and assembly is repressed.
rfi navigation account, time 20 minutes2023.05.28, 16:42| Act: 05/28/2023, 20:24