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Turkey elections: Erdogan says ‘could still win, ready for runoff’

2023-05-16 00:00:00

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Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with an increasingly firm grip for 20 years, was locked in a tight election race Sunday, with a make or break runoff against his chief challenger possible as the final votes were counted. The results, whether they come within days or after a second round of voting takes place in two weeks, will determine if a NATO ally that straddles Europe and Asia but borders Syria and Iran remains under Erdogan s control or resumes the more democratic path promised by his main rival, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Speaking to supporters in Ankara, Erdogan said he could still win but would respect the nation s decision if the race went to a runoff vote in two weeks. We don t yet know if the elections ended in the first round. ... If our nation has chosen for a second round, that is also welcome, Erdogan said early Monday, noting that votes from Turkish citizens living abroad still need to be tallied. He garnered 60 of the overseas vote in 2018. This year s election largely centered on domestic issues such as the economy, civil rights and a February earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people.

But Western nations and foreign investors also awaited the outcome because of Erdogan s sometimes erratic leadership of the economy and efforts to put Turkey at the center of international negotiations. With the unofficial count nearly completed, voter support for the incumbent had dipped below the majority required for him to win reelection outright. Erdogan had 49.6 of the vote, while Kilicdaroglu, the candidate of a six party alliance, had 44.7 , according to the state run news agency Anadolu. Turkey s election authority, the Supreme Electoral Board, said it was providing numbers to competing political parties instantly and would make the results public once the count was completed and finalized. The majority of ballots from the 3.4 million eligible overseas voters still needed to be tallied, according to the board, and a May 28 runoff election was not assured. Howard Eissenstat, an associate professor of Middle East history and politics at St. Lawrence University in New York, said Erdogan was likely to have an advantage in a runoff because the president s party was likely to do better in a parliamentary election also held Sunday. Voters would not want a divided government, he said.

Erdogan, 69, has governed Turkey as either prime minister or president since 2003. In the run up to the election, opinion surveys had indicated the increasingly authoritarian leader narrowly trailed his challenger.

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