The battle for Turkey’s presidency is heading for a run-off in two weeks, with president Recep Tayyip Erdogan appearing to have the upper hand as the count comes to an end.
Both Mr Erdogan’s party and the opposition, led by Kemal Kilicdaroglu, have sought to say they still have a path to victory, but neither candidate seems set to cross the 50 per cent threshold required for an outright win. With 99.4 per cent of the domestic votes and 84 per cent of the overseas votes counted, Mr Erdogan had 49.4 per cent of the votes, with Mr Kilicdaroglu garnering 45 per cent, Ahmet Yener, the head of the Supreme Electoral Board said. Turnout was a very high 88.8 per cent, a sign of how important the presidential vote, happening al.
