Voters flock to polling stations across country

With excitement and anticipation seen on people's faces, Türkiye headed to the most critical elections in its 100-year history, as millions of Turks flocked to the polling stations across the country on May 14 to elect their new president and members of the 600-seat parliament.

The voting occurred from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with more than 60 million citizens who are eligible to cast their votes.

Hitting the roads in the early hours, many voters stood in long queues to cast votes.

Patients in hospitals and receiving home treatment services were taken to their respective polling stations, while officials from the Supreme Election Board (YSK) carried ballot boxes to patients who were unable to make to it the polling stations.

In the Black Sea district of Gümüşhane, 112-year-old woman Güllü Doğan arrived at the polling station with the help of her grandchildren.

Doğan, who was supposed to cast her vote in the ballot box brought to her house due to her age, stated that she preferred to come to the school instead of voting at home.

Residents of the Abide-Hasan Nuri Öncüer Nursing Home in the southwestern province of Muğla's Menteşe district were brought to the school where they would vote by minibus.

Nursing home residents, as well as senior citizens who came to the polling stations with wheelchairs and walking sticks, cast their votes with the help of officials and police officers on duty.

Visually impaired use specially-designed ballot

In the northern province of Sakarya, 32-year-old visually impaired Yusuf Durmuş voted with a specially developed ballot template.

Durmuş stated that there are holes representing presidential candidates and political parties on this ballot paper, which...