Turkey’s top election authority announced on Monday an unprecedented second round of voting in its presidential race between Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and secularist challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
, as of Monday morning and with over 99 percent of the vote counted, Erdoğan received 49.4 percent of the vote. Kılıçdaroğlu received 44.96 percent of the vote, while Sinan Oğan, formerly of the Erdoğan-friendly Nationalist Movement Party , received a little more than five percent of the vote. Muharrem İnce, a former member of Kılıçdaroğlu’s Republican People’s Party , received 0.
“They are blocking the system at the ballot boxes where our votes are high with repeated objections,” the candidate. “Don’t be afraid of the people’s will. Don’t block the people’s will. I call on democracy workers in the field not to leave the ballot boxes. We are here until every vote is counted.” “They [the AKP] are slowing down the vote counting through a systematic appeal campaign. The votes in some polling stations have been counted multiple times,” Mansur Yavaş, the mayor of Ankara, said on Sunday, according to the Turkish newspaper“Yavaş said, according to the official records, Kılıçdaroğlu was having 47.7 percent of the votes and Erdoğan 45.
Also in Diyarbakır, around 200 voters who were assigned as polling officials without their knowledge were not allowed to vote.
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