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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Erdogan leads with half of Turkish vote counted: state media


Turkey's President and presidential candidate of AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures at the polling station on the day of the Presidential runoff vote in Istanbul on May 28, 2023. (Credit: Murad Sezer/Pool/AFP)

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan led his secular rival with half the votes counted in Turkey's runoff election, state media reported Sunday, although his advantage was narrowing as more results came in.

Erdogan was winning with 55.8 percent of the vote with 55 percent of the ballots counted, while opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu had 44.2 percent of the vote, the Anadolu state news agency reported.

Turkey's pro-opposition Fox news channel said most of the early votes counted by state media came from heavily pro-Erdogan regions in Anatolia.

A separate vote count published by the pro-opposition Anka news agency put Kilicdaroglu in the lead with 51 percent against Erdogan's 49 percent.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan led his secular rival with half the votes counted in Turkey's runoff election, state media reported Sunday, although his advantage was narrowing as more results came in.Erdogan was winning with 55.8 percent of the vote with 55 percent of the ballots counted, while opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu had 44.2 percent of the vote, the Anadolu...