Voting for decisive parliamentary and presidential elections Türkiyewho could finish 20 years in power Recep Tayyip Erdogan, It started at 08:00 (5:00 GMT) this Sunday and will continue until 17:00 (15:00 GMT).
Some 61 million Turks will be able to voteIn more than 192,000 ballot boxes, 600 deputies will be chosen from among three candidates who will become the new president for the next five years: Erdoğan, social democrat Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and nationalist Sinan Ogan.
Recent polls predict Fix Kılıçdaroğlu’s Erdogan winalthough it is possible that in this first round, none of them will achieve an absolute majority that will prevent the second round within two weeks.
Ogan will receive no more than 3% of the two candidates with the option, enough to subtract the votes needed to obtain this majority.
In the parliamentary elections, while the polls do not see Erdogan’s party Islamist AKP’s coalition with the ultra-nationalist MHP likely to achieve an absolute majority, the left-wing party HDP will be decisive, although the alliance of the social democratic CHP with the nationalist IYI will not reach it either.
No news about the elections can be made until 18:00 local time. (15:00 GMT) and the press is prohibited from reporting results until 21:00 (18:00 GMT) local time, but the Election Commission can overturn this veto earlier.