ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s electoral chief said that the presidential race will go to a second round on May 28 as incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan fell just short of an outright victory.
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Ahmet Yener, the head of Supreme Electoral Board, said Monday that even when the remaining 35,874 uncounted overseas votes were distributed, no one would secure the majority needed to win the elections outright.
He said preliminary results showed Erdogan won 49.51%, his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu won 44.88% and the third candidate Sinan Ogan won 5.17%. Even if all uncounted votes went to Erdogan, his votes would move up to 49.54%, Yener said.
Sad if Turkiye re-elects this Islamic rightis who hates Israel. This guy denies the Armenian genocide, the destruction of the Greek communities in Turkiye (1920’s) and the current persecution of the Kurds. Maybe the Runoff will be worse for this autocrat.
they have more honest elections than the US does ever since the Kenyan won and then this senile Chinese spy stole it from Trump
Not a chance that Erdogean the dictator will let anyone else win. Kemal will be lukcy if he makes it out alive