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Polls have closed in Turkey's presidential runoff election

An official prepares a ballot with the names and images of the two presidential candidates, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, at a polling station, in Ankara, Turkey, on Sunday. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

ANKARA, Turkey — Preliminary, unofficial results from Turkey's state Anadolu news agency showed incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead with 76% of ballot boxes counted, while a competing news agency gave a slight lead to the opposition candidate in a presidential runoff that will decide whether the country's longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade.

Anadolu showed Erdogan at 54%, and his challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, at 46%.

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