{"id":416776,"date":"2023-05-14T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=416776"},"modified":"2023-05-14T08:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:58:31","slug":"more-than-64-million-people-register-to-vote-in-turkiyes-presidential-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/more-than-64-million-people-register-to-vote-in-turkiyes-presidential-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 64 million people register to vote in T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s presidential, parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA, &#8211; <\/strong>More than 64.1 million people are registered to vote, including over 1.76 million who already cast their ballots abroad and 4.9 million first-time voters.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of voters started heading to the polls in T\u00fcrkiye as the country&#8217;s presidential and parliamentary elections began Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT).<\/p>\n<p>A total of 191,885 ballot boxes have been set up for voters in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Every voter will be casting two ballots, one for the president and the other for parliamentarians, both of whom will serve five-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will choose between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking reelection, main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and Sinan Ogan.<\/p>\n<p>Muharrem Ince, another presidential contender, withdrew from the race on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 political parties and over 150 independent parliamentary candidates will compete in the elections.<\/p>\n<p>There are five multiparty blocs in the running: the People&#8217;s Alliance, Nation Alliance, Ancestral Alliance, Labor and Freedom Alliance, and Union of Socialist Forces Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, &#8211; More than 64.1 million people are registered to vote, including over 1.76 million who already cast their ballots abroad and 4.9 million first-time voters. Millions of voters started heading to the polls in T\u00fcrkiye as the country&#8217;s presidential and parliamentary elections began Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT). A total of 191,885 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":416778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416779,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416776\/revisions\/416779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}