will face off once again at the end of the month in the next stage of an election that has been viewed as a referendum on the now 20-year tenure of president erdogan. jomana ca ra cha is joining us now. what would this runoff look like? what s happening behind you? it s still a pretty boisterous scene even at 2:00 in the morning in istanbul. reporter: it is, jim. we are right outside the headquarters of president erdogan s a.k. party here in istanbul. as you can see, hundreds and hundreds of people have been turning up here. you ve got families who are out here. you ve got people who are driving around on motorbikes and their cars waving the turkish flag and the flag of president erdogan s party. this looks like a celebration, but there is no celebration yet. as you mentioned, this is still too close to call. we understand from the country s supreme election council that nearly 90% of the vote has been counted so far, but they haven t given any indication of what these cand
we understand from the country s supreme election council that nearly 90% of the vote has been counted so far, but they haven t given any indication of what these candidates have gotten so far. we re getting different sets of data coming from the opposition, who believe that they are in the lead. they are also accusing president erdogan s coalition, they say, of slowing down the system by making objections during the counting, that they are slowing down this process, telling them you cannot prevent this. this has to go on. at the same time, you ve also got the official data from the state news agency. as you mentioned, president erdogan dropping below that 50 plus 1 percent that is needed, that threshold, to win.