Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday met with the presidential candidate of ATA (Ancestral) Alliance, Sinan Ogan.
The assembly was held in Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul and took about an hour.
Millions of voters went to polls on Sunday to elect the nation’s subsequent president and the members of its 600-seat parliament.
Voter turnout within the elections was 88.92%, with the turnout from Turkish residents overseas at 52.69%, in line with Ahmet Yener, head of the Supreme Election Council.
The first spherical of voting ended with no candidate in a position to clear the required 50% threshold, however incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took the lead, Yener stated, citing unofficial outcomes.
Erdoğan completed the primary spherical with 49.51% of the vote, whereas his closest competitor Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the chief of the primary opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), got here second at 44.88%, Yener stated.
Sinan Ogan of the ATA (Ancestral) Alliance bought 5.17%, whereas Muharrem Ince, who withdrew from the presidential race late final week after ballots had already been printed, bought 0.44%.
As no candidate was in a position to win an outright majority in Sunday’s vote, a second-round runoff will probably be held on May 28.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
