Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won tightly-contested presidential polls, the election authority said Monday, extending his 15-year grip on power as the opposition complained bitterly about the conduct of the vote count. Turkish voters had for the first time cast ballots for both president and parliament in the snap ...
Turkish citizens began casting their ballots in the presidential and parliamentary elections at 8:00 a.m. local time (GMT 0500) on Sunday. Some 59 million Turks will cast their votes in more than 180,000 ballot boxes across the country. Polls will close at 5:00 p.m. (1400 GMT). The ballot counting will ...
