Turkish election: Polls close in knife-edge presidential, parliamentary ballot

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There will not be any kind of official information until 9:00 p.m., so the afternoon is tense for many Turks. More than 64 million were called to the polls. Among them, obviously, the two candidates for president, Erdogan and Kiliçdaroglu, who have voted in Istanbul and Ankara respectively. It should be noted that voting day has passed without any type of incident.

The polls are officially closed in Turkey and the counting of votes now begins.

Regardless of the results of the parliamentary elections, all attention is focused on seeing which coalition wins the presidential elections:  Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), or the so-called National Alliance, with Kemal Kılıçdaroglu's Republican People's Party (CHP) at the helm.

One of the two will be elected president tonight, unless they do not win with a majority of more than 50% of the votes, in which case there will be a second round.

Election polls closed Sunday in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's leadership of the NATO member country grappling with economic turmoil and the erosion of democratic checks-and-balances hung in the balance after a strong challenge from an opposition candidate.

The election could grant Erdogan, 69, a new five-year term or unseat him in favor of the head of an invigorated opposition, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who has promised to return Turkey to a more democratic path. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the race will be determined in a May 28 run-off.

Voters also elected lawmakers to fill Turkey's 600-seat parliament, which lost much of its legislative power under Erdogan’s executive presidency. If