Turkey appears to be headed for a runoff election as neither Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu clear the threshold to win outright.
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey appeared headed for a runoff presidential election after neither Tayyip Erdogan nor rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu cleared the threshold to win outright on Sunday, May 14, though Erdogan performed better than expected in his battle to extend his 20-year rule.
Opinion polls before the election had pointed to a very tight race but gave Kilicdaroglu, who heads a six-party alliance, a slight lead. Two polls on Friday even showed him above the 50% threshold. Yet the opposition said Erdogan’s party was delaying full results from emerging by lodging objections, while authorities were publishing results in an order that artificially boosted Erdogan’s tally.
At Kilicdaroglu’s CHP party headquarters supporterswaved flags of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and beat drums.The choice of Turkey’s next president is one of the most consequential political decisions in the country’s 100-year history and will reverberate well beyond Turkey’s borders.
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