is ahead of his challenger, kemal kilicdaroglu. around 64 million turks were eligible to vote turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% and they had a choice between two veteran candidates. the election takes place amid a faltering economy, with inflation in double figures and a cost of living crisis. our correspondent anna foster is in istanbulfor us. this is in istanbul for us. this is in istanbulfor us. is the opposition party headquarters this is the opposition party headquarters in turkeys biggest city and you can see i run this place a high of activity at the moment as votes are being counted in the turkish presidential runoff election. the country hasn t seen anything like this before. previous presidential elections, president erdogan has one outright and one more than 50% of the boat both times. this time it was different and he was run close by an opposition, unity challenger second michael representing his party but joined together various opposition pa
it was hot, around 90 degrees. and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage, from the podium at the front of the crowd, that the crowd was about 80,000. but the police actually said it was bigger. police said it was 100,000 people. , again this was in 1936. so if you want to address to that forward for sure, it was $1. about if you want to adjust that to account for how big the population of the country was at the time compared to now, hundred thousand people than convey to the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of like 250 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd. particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician nude william lembke? he was a congressman, a candidate for president. third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election. and that, that huge rally on labor day weekend, and chicago in 1936, was a rally in support of will
literal smoking gun in the murder of his wife and son? welcome on to our viewers around the world. i m christine romans. the search and rescue operation grows more grim in turkey and syria, more than 16,000 people have died in the earthquake there and hope is fading that rescuers will find survivors beneath the mountain of rubble. remarkably two women in turkey were found alive wednesday after 62 hours buried under a collapsed building. and in syria, a newborn baby was pulled from the rubble, her mother is believed to have died after giving birth. international search and rescue teams continue to arrive including some from the united states. salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul for us. there has been anger over the turkish government s response to the disaster. what are they saying now? reporter: we re now entering the fourth day after this powerful earthquake one of the most powerful earthquakes to strike this region in a century hit. and that means that window, that glimme
1936, it was hot, it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front of the crowd that the crowd was about 80,000 but the police actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people, and, again, this was in 1936 so if you want to adjust that for inflation like it was a dollar amount, if you want to adjust thatto account for how big the population was of the country, 100,000 people compared to the overall size of the country would translate to a crowd of like 250,000, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election and that huge, huge, huge rally on labor day weekend in chicago in 1936, that was os sentencely a rally in support of his presid