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
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