Turkey to vote in key election, Erdogan faces toughest test yet
Opposition led by ex-civil servant is looking to unseat the long-time leader; Turks are also voting for parliament.
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Opposition led by ex-civil servant is looking to unseat the long-time leader; Turks are also voting for parliament.
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Voting has opened in Turkey in an election where President Tayyip Erdogan faces the biggest political challenge of his two-decade rule.
More than 64 million Turks are eligible to vote at nearly 192,000 polling stations, including more than 6 million first-time voters. There are 3.4 million voters overseas, who completed voting by May 9.
The unofficial results of the parliamentary election on May 14 showed that the People’s Alliance - formed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the New Welfare Party (YRP) and the Great Union Party (BBP) - garnered the most lawmakers in the parliament.