Turkey elections: Erdogan leads with half of vote counted
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan led his secular rival with half the votes counted in Turkey’s runoff election, state media reported Sunday, although his advantage was narrowing as more results came in.
Erdogan was winning with 56.4 percent of the vote with 49.4 percent of the ballots counted, while opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu had 43.6 percent of the vote, the Anadolu state news agency reported.