Voting operations in Turkey for the runoff between outgoing head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the candidate for the presidency of the Republic of the major opposition parties Kemal Kilicdaroglu began at 8 local time, 7 in Italy.
You can vote until 5pm local time (4pm in Italy). The scrutiny will begin immediately afterwards.
If we also consider residents abroad, there are a total of over 64.1 million people entitled to vote and all Turkish citizens aged 18 or over can vote.
In the first round, on 14 May, the turnout was over 87% of those entitled, Erdogan came first with 49.5% of the votes, Kilicdaroglu obtained almost 45% of the votes while Sinan Ogan, politician right-wing nationalist who then decided to support the outgoing president in the runoff, finished third with just over 5% of the vote.
(Unioneonline/ss)
