what do they think about the issues that the contenders have really been talking about? the economy is certainly one of the biggest things that people have been considering. turkey s economic crisis has been long and it is deep, people are really feeling it in their pockets here. things like the country s response, and particularly the government s response, to those devastating earthquakes back in february. a lot of people were unhappy and saw that as slow and lacking. that did not seem to damage president erdogan s support in those southern areas, though. increasingly, issues around refugees, mainly syrian refugees, there are around 3 million in this country, and immigration has become a hot topic. both sides have been trying to outdo each other in terms of how many refugees they can remove from this country and how quickly. so, at 8am local time, the polls will open and turks will spend all day until 5pm
live from london. this is bbc news. tv presenter holly willoughby says she is hurt after phillip schofield s admission about a relationship with a younger itv colleague, which he previously denied to her. the home office says e gates are now operating as normal after long delays for some passengers travelling to uk airports. in the uk the post office apologises for using racist language to describe sub postmasters who were being wrongly investigated as part of the horizon computer scandal. ukraine s most senior security official tells the bbc the country is ready to launch its long expected counter offensive against russian forces. it s the final day of campaigning in turkey ahead of one of the country s most divisive presidential elections.
to be able to do that, we need to put up a fight together. no matter how we look at the conditions that we are in, a pessimistic atmosphere has been created for everyone. today turkey has some serious economic problems. we will go to the polls and cast our vote, we will replace an authoritarian government through democratic means. so, how do voters right across the country responded to that? what do they think about the issues that the contenders have really been talking about? the economy is certainly one of the biggest things that people have been considering, turkey s economic crisis has been a long and is deep, people really feeling it in their pockets here. things like the country s response, and particularly the government s response to those devastating earthquakes back in february, a lot of people saw that as slow and lacking. that did not seem to damage president erdogan s support in those southern areas though. increasingly, the issue around refugees, mainly syrian refugees,
and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilic daroglu. in the first round of the elction earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are now chasing support from nationalist voters. our middle east correspondent anna foster is in istanbul. both of these contenders have really squeezed every last drop out of theircampaigning. they ve been out in public kemal kilicdaroglu in the capital, ankara, recep tayyip erdogan here in istanbul. bringing people around them, really about bringing people around them, really both trying to win those crucial votes that they need for one of them to push over the 50% mark, because that is the key. it s now come down to a straight run off between these two candidates. the expectation is that we will this time find out who turkey s next leader will be. let s look in a little more detail at who the turkish people are choosing between. recep tayyip erdogan, in power here fo
a more democratic country, saying that he would improve things like free speech. but his critics say that he would not be strong enough on the world stage. that he hasn t got the leadership experience to really provide a contrast to mr erdogan, to really push things forward in the way that he could. but kemal kilicdaroglu has been saying to his supporters and to some of these floating voters that he can solve some of the problems that turkey has been suffering. translation: the situation that our country is in right i now is not good, turkey needs to get out of this. to be able to do that, we need to put up a fight together. no matter how we look at the conditions we are in, a pessimistic atmosphere has been created for everyone. today, turkey has some serious economic problems. we will go to the polls and cast our votes, we will replace an authoritarian government through democratic means. so, how have voters right across the country responded to that?