President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been at Turkey's helm for 20 years, is favoured to win a new five-year term in the second-round runoff after coming just short of an outright victory in the first round on May 14.
Erdogan, 69, who has amassed greater powers during his 20 years in office, finished a first-round election on May 14 just short of a victory and also retained a majority in parliament.
With 99.4% of the domestic votes and 84% of the overseas votes counted, Erdogan had 49.4% of the votes, with his main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, garnering 45%, Ahmet Yener, the head of the Supreme Electoral Board, told reporters.
Opinion surveys have given a slight lead to Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the 74-year-old leader of the centre-left, pro-secular Republican People’s Party, or CHP, and the joint candidate of a united opposition alliance.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics over the past two decades, has never appeared more vulnerable to an opposition challenge.
Turkey’s opposition has long said that the country’s elections are played out on an unequal playing field, claims often backed by international observers.
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Erdogan said that their national intelligence organisation has been following the Daesh "so-called" leader, who has a code name Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, for a long time.
Notably, the Biden administration hosted the Summit virtually today but did not send invitations to China and Turkey-- two of its closest allies.
Cristiano Ronaldo aka CR7 has sent a plane filled with care packages to earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey. The donation is valued at $350,000 as per the Marca.
Turkey's Interior Minister has revealed that the death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey this month has risen to 43,556, with over 600,000 apartments and 150,000 commercial premises damaged.
Earthquake update: The death toll in the fresh spell of tremors that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday night maybe increased as several people were feared to get trapped under debris.
NTV television said the quake caused some damaged buildings to collapse, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties.
You have done a great service to humanity, made India proud, PM Modi said while interacting with assistance and relief teams which returned from quake-hit Turkey.
Operation Dost: After providing extensive services to earthquake-hit people in Turkey, the Indian Army's medical team 60 Para Field returned home.
Thanking countries that are helping the disaster hit nation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a video message, said, "rescue teams have pulled out more than 8,000 people alive from the rubble since the strong quakes jolted Turkey."
As many as 5000 earthquake victims were buried at a site in southeast Tukey on Sunday. As per an exclusive on-ground report with India TV, it was revealed that the bodies will be first laid on open ground in Turkey's Kahramanmaraş
Earlier last week, Turkey directed Pakistan's Prime Minister to cancel his visit to Ankara as the country's ministers are busy with relief and rescue operations.
Turkey-Syria earthquake LIVE UPDATES: An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 struck Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey, the epicentre of the first 7.8-magnitude tremor that upturned millions of lives in the pre-dawn hours of last Monday.
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