{"id":145855,"date":"2018-06-24T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/turkey-election-erdogan-leads-ince-in-early-results\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T17:32:57","slug":"turkey-election-erdogan-leads-ince-in-early-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/turkey-election-erdogan-leads-ince-in-early-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey election: Erdogan leads Ince 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 long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ahead in presidential elections with 62% of votes counted, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erdogan has 56%, and his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, is on 29%. <\/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>With 51% of the votes for parliament counted, the president&#039;s AK Party leads with 46% of the votes, the state news agency Anadolu reports. The main opposition CHP is on 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout is high at almost 87%, the state broadcaster says.<\/p>\n<p>Initial results were thought likely to favour the AK Party, so Mr Erdogan&#039;s lead is expected to decrease as more votes are counted.<\/p>\n<p>His opponent accused the state news agency of being manipulative by releasing results from pro-Erdogan areas first.<\/p>\n<p>And, as the BBC&#039;s Selin Girit points out, there is a substantial difference between Mr Erdogan&#039;s lead as reported by Anadolu and other monitors:<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Twitter post  by @selingirit                              <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>#TurkeyElection: Dramatic difference in the 1st results reported by state run Anadolu agency and the network of independent monitors. One puts Mr Erdogan\u2019s votes at 58%, the latter says it\u2019s at 48%. What is the final outcome going to be? Turkey awaits w\/ stomachs in knots https:\/\/t.co\/EjlFZUqQDC<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Selin Girit (@selingirit) June 24, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              Report                          <\/p>\n<p>End of Twitter post  by @selingirit<\/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<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p069dt8c.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionDoes it matter who&#039;s in charge of Turkey?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Ince has promised to push back what he characterised as a slide into authoritarian rule under Mr Erdogan, should he win.<\/p>\n<p>But his opponent accused the former physics teacher of not having the skills to lead.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      Muharrem Ince is known for his fiery campaigning                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Around 60 million Turks were eligible to take part in Sunday&#039;s dual polls.<\/p>\n<p>As well as Mr Erdogan and Mr Ince, there are four candidates on the ballot. <\/p>\n<p>One has to hit the 50% threshold in an outright win, or the top two will face off in a second-round vote on 8 July.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AFP                                                    <\/figure>\n<h2>What have been the main election issues?<\/h2>\n<p>The biggest is the economy. The Turkish lira has tanked and inflation stands at around 11% - so ordinary people are feeling the squeeze.  <\/p>\n<p>Terrorism is another vexed issue, as Turkey faces attacks from Kurdish militants and the jihadists of the Islamic State group. <\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p069rwy2.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionTurkey&#039;s economy is the biggest election issue: This is the story of farmer Metin Celik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, correspondents say the country tends to vote along its big divides: one between Kurds and nationalists, and another between religious and secular people.<\/p>\n<h2>Is the vote fair?<\/h2>\n<p>There was high security at polling stations and ahead of the vote concerns were raised about potential voter intimidation and electoral fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#039;s election commission has already said it will investigate alleged irregularities in Urfa province, on the southern border with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Rights activists also say the press is not free to report on all sides.<\/p>\n<p>Under Mr Erdogan&#039;s rule, the country has become the world&#039;s biggest jailer of journalists, according to monitoring groups.<\/p>\n<h2>What effect will the new constitution have?<\/h2>\n<p>While the other candidates have rejected the changes, endorsed in endorsed in a tight referendum last year by 51% of voters, Mr Erdogan would start his second term in a turbo-charged version of the job. <\/p>\n<p>The job of prime minister would be scrapped and the president would gain new powers including the ability to directly appoint senior officials.<\/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 long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ahead in presidential elections with 62%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145855","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\/145855","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=145855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}