Below 50%, which would give him a victory from the first election Sunday, the percentage collected Recep Tayyip Erdogan89.24% of the votes were counted.

Right now Erdogan has 49.94% and Kilicdaroglu follows him with 44.30%.

A little earlier, Erdogan attacked Kılıçdaroğlu, speaking of the haste of the opposition with the announcement of the election results, which he called “the usurpation of the will of the citizens.” The Kılıçdaroğlu circles kept saying for hours that the leader of the opposition was ahead.

“While the elections were held in such a positive and democratic atmosphere, and the vote count continues, attempts to hastily announce the results mean a usurpation of the national will,” Erdogan wrote in his first message after the close of voting.

“Today we will not sleep,” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said earlier, insisting that all ballots must be counted.

First readings

Analysts say it is “still too early” for an accurate assessment of the election results. “I think it’s too early to say who won,” Istanbul Research Center CEO Khan Selçuki told CNN. “Given what is happening now, I expect a tough fight towards the end – and the biggest indicator of this is the results in Istanbul, which usually mirror the results across Turkey quite well,” he added.

“We are in a strange situation because there is not enough data. Anadolu Agency, the official agency with a monopoly on official results, seems to have stopped at some point. At the moment it looks like a war of nerves,” Selçuki added.

The results are a “serious setback for the opposition”

Political scientist Cengiz Tomar told Al Jazeera that “the results so far point to a major setback for the opposition.” “The results so far do not at all correspond to the sociological composition of the Turkish people.where 35% of them are religious, conservative and right-wing, and the remaining 65% are secular and Kurdish,” he stressed.