🇹🇷 - Presidential elections are being held in Turkey. The two most prominent candidates are Erdogan and his leftist challenger Kiliçdaroğlu.

🇹🇷⚡️- As of four hours ago, polls have opened for the 2023 Turkish presidential election.

🇹🇷⚡️- Liberal media outlets in Turkey, particularly those opposed to Erdogan, have begun alleging electoral fraud.

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🇹🇷⚡️ - Polls have closed in Turkey.

🇹🇷⚡️ - According to early results, Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party are on track to defeat his leftist opponent's Republican People's Party.

🇹🇷 - At this point in time, these are the Turkish election results by district.
Orange represents the ruling nationalist Justice and Development Party, red represents the left-wing secularist Republican People's Party, and purple represents the People's Democratic Party - a far-left party who garner support among Kurds due to their activism in favor of Kurdish autonomy.

🚨🇹🇷 ~ Kilicdaroglu starts gaining after 21.3% count.

• Erdogan; 55.0 %
• Kilicdaroglu: 39%
• Ogan; 5.4%

🇹🇷— Battle for Istanbul votes still ongoing. Really tight, so far it's (almost) equal for both.

🇹🇷 After 76.14% of ballot boxes opened:

📌 Erdogan - 50.89%
📌Kılıçdaroğlu - 43.30%

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🇹🇷⚡️ - With 85% of votes counted, Erdoğan is on 50.2% - just over the 50% threshold he needs to avoid a runoff.