including a look ahead to the nail biting final day of the english premier legaue season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. with a key strategic position, a growing regional influence and difficult economic times the future of turkey is today being decided in the run off round of the presidential election. around 64 million people are eligible to vote turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% and they have a choice between two veteran candidates. immigration has been top at the topics of discussion for the last few weeks as the two candidates vying for votes. this is one of the polling stations you will see up and down the country. voting always happens in schools. i have been outside this one for a few hours then people have been coming in through the day. they head into these classrooms and each one like a separate ballot box and they give their name, because the vote and get photographs of both candidates. they have to st
enjoyed by my colleague from bbc verified and we will have correspondence joining verified and we will have correspondencejoining us from around turkey with this coverage following the presidential election vote in turkey which president erdogan says he has won. you are watching bbc news. welcome to sports day. this is how you stay in the top flight, everton s complete, they survive on the final day. leaves at leicester and leeds at the two teams to go down at the end of the day. second favourites to be relegated from league 2, carlisle have been promoted in the play off final. also coming up on sportsday. max verstappen sustains his lead from the skies in monaco. an already depleted british contingent at roland garros shrinks further, dan evansis roland garros shrinks further, dan evans is beaten on day one of the french open. and you have a friend and me, geraint thomas cannot win the giro d italia but he could help mark cavendish in rome. hello again. the premier league s
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coming up, all the sport including the look ahead to the relegation battle dominating the final day of the english premier league season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. i want to talk you through what is happening here because this is the moment the two candidates and turkey s 64 million voters have been waiting for. all these people crowding in here. let me show you into this room. it looks like quite a crowd of people. they are the election observers and you can see the ballot box is going to be lifted into the corner of the room and in the next few minutes it will be broken open and those votes will start to be counted. out to be high once again. last time nearly 90% turned out for the vote and right across the country this scene is happening now. the votes are being counted. the first presidential run off that turkey has seen. ordinary people up and down the country from the biggest city here in istanbul, the earthquake zone in the s
ittems to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis. the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election, with voting now under way in a presidential election run off between long time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. here they are voting in the last hour. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters. these are the live pictures from istanbul, where reports say there s been brisk voting. people displaced by february s earthquake have been taken back home by bus to cast ballots. turnout among voters in the diaspora appears to have grown since the first round. 0ur middle east correspondent anna foster is following polls are open now right across turkey and they ll stay that way until five o clock local time this