Turkey Election Runoff Results!
Turkey presidential election run-off live unofficial results
Final Updates:
Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thanked voters after official results showed him winning Turkey’s first-ever presidential election run-off.
The head of the Supreme Election Council declared that Erdogan had won, after the Anadolu News Agency had earlier given Erdogan a decisive lead over his rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, with nearly all of the votes from Sunday’s election counted.
Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for 20 years, will now serve another five-year term.
Foreign leaders issue statements congratulating the 69-year-old for his election victory.
Earlier Updates:
The head of Turkey’s high election board has said that President Erdogan is leading the presidential race with 54.5 percent with over 70 percent of the ballots boxes counted, according to official results.
Vote counting is under way in Turkey’s first-ever presidential election run-off.
Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks re-election against Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the main opposition candidate.
Neither one was able to get more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is leading according to several unofficial results by both State news media and the opposition agency.
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