Early returns from Turkey's national election had Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a solid lead after some 47% of ballot boxes were counted, while the longtime leader's main challenger disputed numbers that showed him trailing.
Sunday had President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a solid lead after some 47% of ballot boxes were counted, the Turkish state-run news agency said, while the longtime leader's main challenger disputed the numbers that showed him trailing.
Supporters of Kemal Kilicdaroglu's, presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition alliance, react after early exit polls at the Republican People's Party headquarters on May 14, 2023 in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan's chief rival, KiIicdaroglu, is a secular social democrat politician who has emphasized messages of freedom and democracy on the campaign trail.
Voters also elected lawmakers to fill Turkey's 600-seat parliament, which lost much of its legislative power after Erdogan's executive presidency. The opposition has promised to return Turkey's governance system to a parliamentary democracy if it wins both the presidential and parliamentary ballots. Erdogan, along with the United Nations, helped mediate a deal with Ukraine and Russia that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach the rest of the world from Black Sea ports despite Russia's war in Ukraine. The agreement is set to expire in days, and Turkey hosted talks last week to keep it alive.
Erdogan's government also faced criticism for its allegedly delayed and stunted response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that caused devastation in 11 southern provinces. A lax implementation of building codes is thought to have exacerbated the casualties and misery. At polling stations, many voters struggled trying to fold bulky ballot papers — they featured 24 political parties competing for seats in parliament — and to fit them into envelopes along with the ballot for the presidency.
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