
Turkish news agencies are reporting various partial results of Sunday’s presidential election hours after polls closed, as the opposition accuses the state news agency of being unreliable and providing false data, reports BBC.
State news agency AA said more than 54 percent of the vote had been counted, leaving Erdogan in the lead with 51.9 percent and Kilicdaroglu so far securing 42.3 percent.
The private Anka news agency also says Erdogan is leading, but with 47.4 percent of the vote compared to Kilicdaroglu’s 46.8 percent. According to the agency, 44.5 percent of votes were counted.
In previous years, Erdogan’s strongholds have tended to release their results earlier than regions where the opposition is in power.
Opposition leaders disputed the results presented by Anadolu.
Kilicdaroglu said he was ahead of Erdogan in a tweet, his first comment since the preliminary results were released. CHP shared Kilicdaroglu’s post and commented: “We are leading.”
Mansur Yavas, the mayor of the Turkish capital Ankara, suggested that the figures from the state-run Anadolu agency were not reliable, and Kilicdaroglu is now in charge. “Trust us, trust us,” he said.
Source: Hot News

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