ittems to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis. the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election, with voting now under way in a presidential election run off between long time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. here they are voting in the last hour. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters. these are the live pictures from istanbul, where reports say there s been brisk voting. people displaced by february s earthquake have been taken back home by bus to cast ballots. turnout among voters in the diaspora appears to have grown since the first round. 0ur middle east correspondent anna foster is following polls are open now right across turkey and they ll stay that way until five o clock local time this
cost of living crisis. we meet the south african woman who used her own experiences of period poverty to help empower girls in hundreds of schools by delivering free pads. welcome to istanbul, where the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential after two weeks ago, none of the candidates managed to reach over 50% of the vote. let me show you where i am. this is one of hundreds of thousands of polling stations across turkey. schools are where the voting tends to happen and there has been a steady stream of people coming in. there is a board by the door and it shows which classroom corresponds to the ballot box they have been allocated. and then they had inside underneath a huge turkish flag which is hanging from the ceiling, where they get a far simpler ballot paper than two weeks ago, because that time they were presidential and parliamentary elections. people have been telling me today that the ballot paper was so long last
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