President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voted in the morning, together with his wife Emine in the Anatolian side of Istanbul. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the candidate of the opposition parties challenging Erdogan in today's runoff, voted in Ankara.
"I call on all citizens to go to the polls to free us from an authoritarian regime and for the arrival of freedom and democracy," KilicDaroglu said at a news conference after voting. It is the first time that a run-off has been held in Turkey's presidential elections.