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Polls are open in Turkey’s presidential runoff between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu.

Here is what you need to know:

• Polls will close by 5pm local time
• A broadcast ban likely to be lifted around 6:30pm
• Anadolu and Anka will cover the results
• The count won’t be long
• Erdogan is leading with a big margin in multiple polls but it might all depend on who goes to the polling stations. Whoever mobilises their supporters and ferry them to vote will have a distinct advantage
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May 28
BREAKING — Erdogan is set to win a third presidential term according to latest data both from Anadolu and its rival Anka.

Erdogan remains the president of Turkey for the next five years Image
Follow the lives updates on #Turkey’s elections here:

middleeasteye.net/live/turkey-el…
Qatari Emir congratulates Erdogan for the election victory:

“My dear brother, congratulations on your victory, and I wish you success in your new term, and that you achieve in it what the brotherly Turkish people aspire to in terms of progress and prosperity” Image
Read 6 tweets
May 27
Turkey’s runoff presidential elections between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu are set for tomorrow and here is what happened so far

Kilicdaroglu run a campaign based on fear but also trying to woo GenZ and nationalist voters

middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-el…
2- Erdogan on the other hand ran a less polarising campaign compared to the first round.

He even embraced pro-Kurdish HDP voters today, telling them to vote for himself

middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-el…
3- Both Kilicdaroglu and Erdogan tried to capture surplus nationalist voters by establishing alliances with ultranationalist

Third placed candidate Ogan backed Erdogan, and he has been called as sellout since then

middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-el…
Read 11 tweets
May 19
NEW: Erdogan to meet presidential candidate Sinan Ogan in Istanbul today
Erdogan today told CNN that he wouldn’t negotiate with Ogan
Ogan and Erdogan Image
Read 4 tweets
May 19
Here is Kilicdaroglu’s runoff strategy

• Tense; nationalist campaign
• Present a binary choice between him and Erdogan
• Table of Six leaders won’t be visible
• Steps to push 8 million voters who didn’t show up back to polls on May 28

middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-el…
• Moves to capture GenZ votes, CHP suspects half of them didn’t go to the polls
• Will try to increase Kurdish voter turnouts
• Imamoglu, Yavas will stay in Istanbul and Ankara, campaign in their respective cities to rally support

middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-el…
• Kilicdaroglu won’t hold rallies but meet the opinion leaders and local notables in different cities to convince them and explain what he stands for

middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-el…
Read 4 tweets
May 14
There are a lot of disinformation about the Turkey elections vote count. Let me explain, bear with me

1- Votes are counted in individual polling stations and each party get the results and submit them to their own database

2- Then the bags full of ballots carried to districts
3- District election boards collect bags and the records, merge them and send them to provincial election boards

4- Provincial boards enter the data to the official system as the final vote, the change from the first point to last point is generally minimal
5- That’s why opposition leaning Anka news agency is able to publish data for the 97.8 percent of the ballot boxes, because the information is directly coming from the polling stations, the first stage where the parties collect their initial results.
Read 5 tweets
May 14
Polls open in Turkey’s fiercely fought elections
My neighbourhood school was very busy. Lines everywhere even though it is very early in Turkey, 8am.
HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan voted in the city of Van Image
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