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TRT HABER (NEWS) (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
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HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
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"Biden gave the instructions saying 'we have to topple Erdogan' I know this"
TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN SPEAKS AT AN ELECTION RALLY IN ISTANBUL MAY 13, 2023-RUDAW NEWS
(1145 PM EASTERN US TIME, 645 AM IN TURKEY)
THE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT WITH 98.72 PERCENT OF THE VOTE COUNTED
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN 49.35 PERCENT
KEMAL KILICDAROGLU 45 PERCENT
SINAN OGAN 5.22 PERCENT
A candidate must get 50 percent plus one to win in this first round vote.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking late in the night and telling his supporters it is not yet clear if the election will move onto a second round.
But he is ready for a second round if it comes.
Meanwhile Kemal Kilicdaroglu is pointing to the second round when he spoke late tonight urging his supporters to prepare for the next round on May 28th.
The third candidate who got just over five percent of the vote Sinan Ogan will not be in the second round he says he will consider his next move in the coming days including any endorsement of Erdogan or Kilicdaroglu.
AT THIS TIME PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RESULTS SHOWING THE COALITION OF PARTIES SUPPORTING MR. ERDOGAN AT 322 SEATS HIS AK PARTY WINNING 266 OF THOSE SEATS THAT IS A LOSS OF 29 SEATS FOR AK FROM THE LAST ELECTION.
SO THE PRO-ERDOGAN PARTIES MAINTAINING A MAJORITY OF THE 600 SEATS WITH 99.97 PERCENT OF THE VOTES COUNTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SEATS.
(545 PM EASTERN US TIME, 1245 AM IN TURKEY)
Back in six hours to again look at the situation.
THE VOTE COUNT NOW 94.24 PERCENT FOR PRESIDENT
ERDOGAN 49.59 PERCENT
KILICDAROGLU 44.67 PERCENT
SINAN OGAN 5.28 PERCENT
MUHARREM INCE .45 PERCENT
Kemal Kilicdaroglu saying tonight on Twitter he wants more data from the vote count including the numbers from Türkiye's major cities.
(5 PM EASTERN US TIME, 12 MIDNIGHT IN TURKEY)
If no presidential candidate breaks 50 percent tonight there will be a second round vote on May 28th two weeks from today.
IN THE VOTE FOR PARLIAMENT PARTIES ALIGNED WITH MR. ERDOGAN HAVE 325 OF THRE 600 SEATS WITH 87.5 PERCENT OF THE VOTE COUNTED.
The opposition parties insisting they are on the way to victory in the election tonight.
RIGHT NOW TRT NEWS USING THE ANADOLU AGENCY REPORTING OF THE VOTE COUNT AT 92 PERCENT
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN 49.76 PERCENT
KEMAL KILLICDAROGLU 44.49 PERCENT
SINAN OGAN 5.30 PERCENT
MUHARREM INCE .46 PERCENT
Omer Celik is a spokesman for Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party he speaks of a transparent vote counting process tonight even as foreign mainstream media cast doubt on its authenticity.
A news agency called "ANKA" being cited as having a different vote count than the one coming from the Anadolu News Agency which is owned by the government.
(210 PM EASTERN US TIME, 910 PM IN TURKEY)
Be away for a few hours but right now the BBC is quoting opposition mayors in Turkey saying that Mr. Kilicdaroglu is ahead.
A news agency quoted by Germany's Deutsche Welle says Mr. Erdogan's lead is a narrow one 47.64 percent to Mr. Kilicdaroglu's 46.6 percent with some 52.75 of the votes counted.
BUT ON 'YENI SAFAK' THE PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER IN ENGLISH THE VOTE COUNT IS UP TO 64.4 PERCENT....
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN 51.4 PERCENT
KEMAL KILICDAROGLU 42.8 PERCENT
SINAN OGAN 5.3 PERCENT
FEWER VOTES COUNTED FOR PARLIAMENT 45.3 PERCENT BUT THE ALLIANCE OF PRO-ERDOGAN PARTIES AT 335 OF THE 600 SEATS.
(110 PM US EASTERN TIME, 810 PM IN TURKEY)
45.7 PERCENT OF THE BALLOT BOXES OPENED
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN 52.3 PERCENT
KEMAL KILICARDOGLU 41.8 PERCENT
SINAN OGAN 5.3 PERCENT
"It's time to hold onto the ballot boxes"
That's the message from President Erdogan to his supporters on Twitter tonight...
We have early information coming in one estimate is that 348 of the 600 seats in Turkey's Parliament go to the AK Party of President Erdogan and its nationalist MHP allies and 133 to the CHP of opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu...TASS RUSSIA
First results in this election will happen legally they are not allowed to be reported until 9 pm local time (2 pm Eastern US Time).
The election is also one involving the parliament not just the presidency.
THE POLLS CLOSED IN TURKEY AT 10 AM EASTERN US TIME, 5 PM LOCAL TIME.
(945 AM EASTERN US TIME, 445 PM IN TURKEY)
"According to the data we have the elections are going without any problems"
Those words from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking after he voted in Istanbul...TASS RUSSIA
Today the man called "Uncle Sam's Man" in Türkiye says "democracy" is on the way.
The main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu speaking after he voted today...TASS RUSSIA
"HURRIYET DAILY NEWS" REPORTING THAT THREE PEOPLE DIED OF HEART ATTACKS AT POLLING STATIONS TODAY.
The news stories on the Turkish sites focus on voters in line, people voting today one man riding in dressed like a medieval Ottoman solider (Janissary).
Türkiye figured in the "Deep State" efforts to take out the former Trump National Security Adviser Lt. General Michael Flynn the accusations against Flynn included the notion that he was a Turkish agent.
In 2011 President Erdogan linked to the events in Egypt when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
The army in Egypt restored order but the United States was also seen as a major player in that "Arab Spring" mess that happened on Obama's watch.
(EARLIER PORTION OF POST)
It's been almost seven years since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin warning him of a coup attempt.
Erdogan survived the July 2016 coup attempt but linked it to the United States and a Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen who lives in a compound near Altoona, Pennsylvania.
At the time of the attempted coup Barrack Obama the President of the United States now Joe Biden his Vice-President is the occupant of the White House.
The emotions are high at the end of the campaign President Erdogan pointing in the direction of the US and allied nations saying they have interfered in the election.
Speaking to a rally in Istanbul on Friday Erdogan noting that Western governments and media are campaigning against his re-election:
"What can you say if I tell you that the United States, Britain and Germany manipulate the elections?...
We are competing against those trying to disrupt the 'Century of Türkiye'.
Magazines have covers reading 'Erdogan must go.' It is none of your business. The West cannot decide it. It is up to my nation."
Saturday night at Hagia Sophia converted back into a mosque during Erdogan's rule the evening prayer led by Mr. Erdogan with tens of thousands in attendance...
YENI SAFAK TURKEY NEWS STORY (TRANSLATION PROMPT) (VIDEO EMBED)
Voters today will also be choosing the composition of the parliament.
It's been some 20 years of rule in Turkey for Mr. Erdogan and his AK Party which overcame efforts to undermine it from the secularist political forces that previously dominated Turkey.
Mr. Erdogan himself jailed and banned from political office after being elected Mayor of Istanbul in 1994...
Erdogan is an Islamist with a comparatively moderate vision who has aligned himself with nationalist elements and presented a vision of a revived Turkey in the spirit of the Ottoman Empire.
He has maintained ties closer to Russia ties considered inappropriate by the United States and other NATO nations of which Turkey is a member.
The US has blocked Turkish participation in the F-35 fighter program in retaliation for Turkey obtaining the Russian S-400 surface to air missile system.
Mainstream Media aroused by Twitter's decision to go along with Turkish government orders to keep some tweets censored.
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