Counting Phase News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. this is the opposition party headquarters in turkish biggest city and boats are being counted in the turkish presidential runoff election. the country hasn't seen anything like this before. in previous residential elections president one has one outright. this time it was different. he was run close by and opposition unity challenge with kemal kilicdaroglu presenting the opposition party and drawing together of other opposition parties as a candidate to try and remove the long—standing leader for power. the situa...

Hasn't yet been taken to a runoff election like this. he has his previous two in this form. straightaway by getting more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting. a few weeks ago we had a first round of voting with lots of candidates, president erdogan did finish first in that election but just shy of the 50% threshold. he had 49 point 0%. quite nice enough, so that's why we are in this situation. you can see that ballard's papers there and just two choices on the ballot paper facing millions of turks and they have been voting throughout the day but voting has now stopped and we are i...