Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Country records high turnout in presidential, parliamentary elections

Türkiye's historic presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 witnessed a high voter turnout at 86.2 percent.

The figure was barely below the 88.2 percent turnout in 2018 when Turkish voters headed to ballot boxes to elect the president and members of the parliament.

Turkey appears headed for runoff in presidential race as Erdogan performs better than expected

Turkey's presidential elections appeared headed for a runoff Monday, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pulling ahead of his chief challenger, but falling short of an outright victory that would extend his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade.

Kılıçdaroğlu vows to win a possible runoff election

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rival vowed Monday to win a runoff election after almost complete results showed neither candidate had secured the required 50 percent of the vote.

"If our nation says second round, we will absolutely win in the second round," Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu told reporters. "The will for change in society is higher than 50 percent."

Expecting to face the same old Turkey

Greek officials are closely watching the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections, but seem resigned to the fact that the neighboring country's policy includes expansionist claims in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean and the questioning of Greece's sovereignty over many of its Aegean islands, as well as the islands' themselves possessing a continental shelf.

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