is a state agency controlled by erdogan, has a wide sweep. the other is in opposition leaning news agency. both of them now are reporting the same result which is that president erdogan looks like he is about to get another five years in power. he has gone over that 50% line which is needed to be turkey s next president. kilicdaroglu, his challenger has been speaking this evening in ankara, talking about dark days ahead, he says the turkey. people have been taken aggravating here all day. as soon as soon as abating finished at five o clock, those ballot boxes were opened and the votes were counted. we expected it, always, to be a quick process can lead to two weeks ago, the first presidential election, which was also wrapped in with parliamentary elections. that time around, we saw queues at polling stations because the ballot paper were so long that some people were struggling to fold it up and squeeze it into the envelope they had to put it in to make it official. this time
being alive. at erdogan has played on the fear factor, saying that may be the secular segments in the opposition bloc could erode the gains that were made by the conservative women, who are especially wearing scarves. actually, the opposition, i believe, were a bit counting on the young voters, and the young conservative segments. it appears that they also remained loyal to erdogan. what remained loyalto erdogan. what about where remained loyalto erdogan. what about where president remained loyal to erdogan. what about where president erdogan goes nextin about where president erdogan goes next in terms of policy and how he chooses to leave the country? even on the figures we are seeing, 52, 50 3%, he has won comfortably. it is not an overwhelming margin, do you think you might take on board some
you very much for talking to us. ambassador from 2008 to do thousand and ten. the rain has stopped a little even as the parties continue on the street. we spoke adam. erdogan spoke earlier, and we also heard from kilicdaroglu speaking at the chp headquarters, a far more dejected speech. he spoke about fears and concerns for turkey over the next five years. we are of course waiting for the final result, the y s k, the official election board. they are slower than the news agencies to release their final results. we know that most of the ballots have been counted. erdogan did say that he has been receiving calls from other world leaders congratulating him on his victory, thatis congratulating him on his victory, that is all but academic now, it
have been chasing for the last year anda half. ~ ., ., ~ and a half. what do you think will ha en and a half. what do you think will happen next? and a half. what do you think will happen next? obviously, - and a half. what do you think will happen next? obviously, those i and a half. what do you think will- happen next? obviously, those issues that were so important before the election, none of them have gone away. as you rightly say, we are still waiting for the final result, it looks all intents and purposes like erdogan has one. how will he deal with those issues? will he see this as an endorsement of the approach he has taken thus far? look, now, the people s alliance, led by erdogan has a majority in parliament and he has a clear winner in the presidential election. now it is up to him to fix the economy. the first speech he gave. many of the statement he made before the first round and between the first round of the presidential election, where that as far as economic policy
stage, they might have produced a stronger result. that is all academic now. with the final official results seem to be announced, still to be announced, we don t know when the announcement will come, everyone, ithink, including kilicdaroglu and erdogan have accepted that erdogan has won this presidential election, this presidential run off, the first turkey has seen. as we wait for a further reaction, further analysis, further reaction, further analysis, further atmosphere on the streets here in istanbul, you can follow along the story with the bbc website. there is a live page where you can see what is happening across the country. we will be back here, and i will take a towel to my hair. and we will return to continue looking at this developing story. i am glad to say that it is dry on the studios here in london. we will let you find that towel and have a break from a very busy istanbul. let s