Voting operations began at 8 am local time, 7 am in Italy, for the run-off between the outgoing head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the candidate for the presidency of the Republic of the major opposition parties Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The polling stations will remain open until 17 pm local time, 16 pm in Italy, and immediately after the counting of votes will begin.
Including the number of residents abroad, there are more than 64.1 million eligible voters and all Turkish citizens who are at least 18 years old can vote. During the first round, on May 14, the turnout was over 87% of those entitled, Erdogan came first with 49.5% of the vote, Kilicdaroglu obtained almost 45% of the votes while Sinan Ogan, a right-wing nationalist politician who then decided to support the outgoing president in the runoff, came third with just over 5% of the vote.
