kilicdaroglu was there casting his vote. it was a little bit busier there. supporters were able to get a little bit closer to him than they were to recep tayip erdogan but in both cases, voting pastel fairly uneventfully and people here now are poised to see what will happen in what is the first presidential run off this country has ever seen because recep tayip erdogan, in both of his previous presidential elections, one with a margin that he needed. one of the candidates needed 50% in order to become president of turkey. the last two times, he managed it but this time we have this unprecedented run off and the figure is two weeks well, they were very, very close indeed. 49.5% of the vote for recep tayip erdogan. for kemal kilicdaroglu a little less. 44.9%. based on that turnout, as we were saying, of nearly 90% of registered turks who came out. this time we have a new record for
the 50% threshold in the first round of voting. he took around 49.5 percent with mr kilicdaroglu taking about 44.9 percent. and that was on a turn out of nearly 89 percent of people eligible to vote. my colleague anna foster has been following the election from istanbul she sent us this update just after the polls had closed. well, the counting is well under way and the first results will be on their way to the main election centres where all of these numbers are tallied and sent to provide that final total and the anxious wait has really begun now for these two candidates. recep tayip erdogan, who is teetering either on the brink of another term as turkey s president or defeat if the challenger kemal kilicdaroglu manages to get more than 50% of the vote and they have been campaigning on some of the key issues here in turkey. things like
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