{"id":145829,"date":"2018-06-24T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/turkey-election-erdogan-leads-in-early-results\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T16:31:22","slug":"turkey-election-erdogan-leads-in-early-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/turkey-election-erdogan-leads-in-early-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey election: Erdogan leads in early results"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Recep Tayyip Erdogan votes at a polling station in Istanbul (24 June 2018)\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1557A\/production\/_102181478_6481ce8b-36aa-4ae6-8f5c-5bca4944a92f.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      Casting his vote, Mr Erdogan said Turkey was going through &quot;a democratic revolution&quot;                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Turkey&#039;s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ahead in the presidential election with a fifth of votes counted, state media report.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erdogan has 59%, and his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, is on 27%. <\/p>\n<p>If Mr Erdogan wins more than 50% of the overall vote, he will be declared the winner and avoid the need for a second round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the presidency, voters are also choosing members of parliament. Mr Erdogan&#039;s party is ahead in that poll.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey&#039;s elections in 100 and 500 words<\/li>\n<li>Erdogan: Turkey&#039;s pugnacious president<\/li>\n<li>Reality Check: The numbers behind Turkey&#039;s crackdown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His AK Party leads with 55% of the votes counted so far, state media report. The main opposition CHP is on 14%.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout is almost 87%, the state broadcaster says.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey remains under a state of emergency imposed in the aftermath of a failed coup in July 2016. <\/p>\n<p>These elections were originally scheduled for November 2019 but were brought forward by Mr Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>He is seeking a second term as president, and would govern under a new constitution which grants the president new powers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erdogan was prime minister for 11 years before becoming president in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFPImage caption Casting his vote, Mr Erdogan said Turkey was going through &quot;a democratic revolution&quot; Turkey&#039;s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ahead in the presidential election with a fifth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}