is discussing plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living. i want to just stick with turkey for a few moments and i will bring you live pictures that we can show you now and these are outside the presidential palace, we have these pictures here at the moment of the two candidates casting their ballots earlier in the day and we will shortly be able to show you outside the presidential palace in turkey. you can see on the right hand side of your screen that here in ankara, thatis of your screen that here in ankara, that is president recep tayyip erdogan and he has, according to the afp news agency, declared victory in the run off election. you can see him speaking there. we are seeing also that the main opposition party says it will hold the candidate put forward, set, for what it says is a bad performance. kemal kilicdaroglu. this is the first time that there has been a run off in the residential electi
"We are designing an economy focused on investment and employment, with a finance management team that has international reputation," Erdogan told his supporters at his palace in Ankara.
Following the May 14 vote, international observers pointed to the criminalization of dissemination of false information and online censorship as evidence that Erdogan had an “unjustified advantage.” They also said that strong turnout showed the resilience of Turkish democracy.
Erdogan secured 52.10 per cent of votes while his contender Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, the leader of the centre-left Republican People s Party (CHP) and presidential nominee of the opposition bloc, received 47.90 per cent, after 99.49 per cent of ballot boxes were opened.