if president recep tayyip erdogan should remain in power after 20 years may end in a run off vote. the islamic party of the incumbent president erdogan is being challenged by a secularist candidate, kemal kilicdaroglu. both men have dismissed the other side s claims to be in the lead. counting has continued throughout the day. this is one of the country s most critical elections. the country is dealing with soaring inflation, and is still reeling from two earthquakes in february in which more than 50,000 people died. these are live pictures from the streets of turkey where people are awaiting a result. let s cross live to our middle east corrrespondent anna foster, who joins us from outside the governing ak party s headquarters in the turkish city of adana. voting has been going on for quite a while now, we have had one side claiming they are in the lead and then the other side, so i suppose it shows usjust then the other side, so i suppose it shows us just how tight it is? i
eroded under president erdogan, not least free speech. in terms of delicate issues like nato membership and sweden being admitted to nato, which of course turkey has been blocking, he made it clear he would still like to see progress from sweden on dealing with the issue of kurdish militant groups and the support turkey alleges their giving to those groups so i don t necessarily think kemal kilicdaroglu will suddenly become a very different kind of foreign policy figure in terms of the substance, but i think the presentation will be very different. he is very much a consensus orientated politician, not argumentative, not combo but have an impact in many ways he is sort of a polar opposite to president erdogan not combative. polar opposite to president erdogan not combative. polar opposite to president erdogan not combative. counting has been auoin on not combative. counting has been going on for not combative. counting has been going on for around not combative. counti
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President Erdogan recently indicated he wants Turkey to hold its 2023 national elections on May 14 That is about a month sooner than everyone else anticipated In fact, the polls were scheduled for June 18 Erdogan’s call for May 14 caught the cou
President Erdogan recently indicated he wants Turkey to hold its 2023 national elections on May 14 That is about a month sooner than everyone else anticipated In fact, the polls were scheduled for June 18 Erdogan’s call for May 14 caught the cou