‼️ Erdogan ahead with 57% of vote in presidential runoff after over 40% of ballot boxes counted, according to state media

🇹🇷🗳 According to Anadolu Agency, based on the ballots counted so far, Erdogan is in the lead, receiving 54.37%, while Kilicdaroglu has 45.63%

🇹🇷 Footage from Sputnik correspondent: bags with counted votes are being delivered to the regional election commission

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❗️Official data: Voter turnout - 85.2%, Counted - 89.8%. Erdogan - 52.72%, Kilicdaroglu - 47.28%.

❗️Erdogan gains over 54% of vote in presidential runoff, according to preliminary results of Turkish Electoral Commission

🇹🇷🏛 Sputnik photo of the presidential palace right now

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‼️ Official data: After counting 97.9% of the votes, the results remain largely unchanged. Erdogan has 52.14%, Kilicdaroglu has 47.86%. Voter turnout is 85.1%.

🇹🇷 In Istanbul, supporters of Erdogan are spreading across the city's roads in cars, already celebrating his victory.

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⚡️ Erdogan beats Kilicdaroglu 53.41% against 46.59% after all ballots tabulated in Turkiye, abroad, according to preliminary results from Turkiye's Election Commission

🇹🇷 Erdogan has announced that the second round of presidential elections in Turkiye has concluded, and that it was a celebration of democracy.

Erdogan expressed gratitude to the citizens of Turkiye for their votes for him in the second presidential election round.

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NATO Chief warns Kosovo against making destabilizing steps

"Pristina & Belgrade must engage in the EU-led dialogue now, as the only way to peace & normalisation. Pristina must de-escalate & not take unilateral, destabilising steps," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wrote on social media after speaking to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
Kosovo police used force on Thursday to install ethnic Albanian mayors in northern Kosovo following an election in April that was boycotted by a vast majority of voters. The polls were declared valid despite the turnover of less than 3.5%.

Serbia's National Security Council accused the NATO-led peacekeeping mission KFOR of inaction. Serbia put its armed forces on full combat alert and moved them close to the border following a Kosovo police crackdown on peaceful anti-government protesters.

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