Report from Europe: Erdogan is leading 51 to 43.5% with 69% of vote

[sinkingfeeling]

counted.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Disappointed, but not surprised.

[Easterncedar]

2. I don't believe he would have accepted a loss

Whether the election is rigged matters to the extent Erdogan would have had to resort to violence to overturn it if he had appeared to lose, it seems to me. Hope is hard to come by these days. I feel for Turkey.

[Bev54]

3. So was hoping to see him defeated and Lukashenko of Belarus drop dead

and feel like there is a change coming.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Erdogun under 51%

Heading for runoff territory.

[moondust]

5. CNNI: Opposition claims slight lead over Erdogan.

State-run media report Erdogan leading.

Do big urban centers trend more liberal and take longer to report results in Turkey?

[Easterncedar]

6. I spoke too soon

Results from the major population centers not yet counted according to the BBC and could change the current balance.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. When you say "Europe", do you mean Istanbul, or somewhere in Europe repeating

something from someone in Turkey - in which case, who?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I'm in North Macedonia watching their version of an all news

network. Currently, with 87% of voting sites reporting, Erdogan has 50.0 % and main challenger has 44.2%. A third person has 5.3%.

P.S. I'm going to bed. It's 10 PM here.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Reuters: both camps say runoff looking likely

Reuters is reporting sources in both President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling AKP party and his opposition rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s CHP as saying that based on results so far, neither is likely to clear the 50% threshold needed for an outright win.

With 75% of votes counted, the state-owned Anadolu news agency has Erdoğan on 50.76% and Kılıçdaroğlu on 43.43%. The private Anka agency also has Erdoğan ahead, but by a much narrower margin: roughly 48% to 47%.

The steady performance of the third candidate, nationalist Sinan Oğan, unchanged at just over 5.3%, makes a second round – scheduled for a fortnight’s time on 28 May – more likely, several analysts have said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/may/14/turkey-elections-live-vote-recep-tayyip-erdogan-kemal-klcdaroglu?page=with:block-64612bb98f08e7793c5e2f44#block-64612bb98f08e7793c5e2f44