{"id":417303,"date":"2023-05-28T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T05:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=417303"},"modified":"2023-05-28T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T05:30:47","slug":"millions-head-to-the-polling-stations-in-turkiye-as-countrys-first-presidential-election-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/millions-head-to-the-polling-stations-in-turkiye-as-countrys-first-presidential-election-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions head to the polling stations in T\u00fcrkiye as country\u2019s first presidential election begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, &#8211; Millions of voters started heading to the polls in T\u00fcrkiye as the country\u2019s first-ever presidential runoff election began Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT).<\/p>\n<p>More than 64.1 million people are registered to vote, including over 1.92 million who already cast their ballots at overseas polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 191,885 ballot boxes have been set up for voters in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will choose between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking reelection, and main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu.<\/p>\n<p>Overseas voting was held until May 24. As for customs gates, voters will be able to cast their ballots until domestic polling stations close at 5 p.m. local time (1400GMT) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of voters went to the polls on May 14 to elect the country&#8217;s president and members of its 600-seat parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan\u2019s People\u2019s Alliance won a majority against the opposition&#8217;s six-party Nation alliance in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>But the presidential race will be decided in Sunday\u2019s runoff since no candidate could get the required 50% in the first round, though Erdogan was in the lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Source: Anadolu<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, &#8211; Millions of voters started heading to the polls in T\u00fcrkiye as the country\u2019s first-ever presidential runoff election began Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT). More than 64.1 million people are registered to vote, including over 1.92 million who already cast their ballots at overseas polling stations. A total of 191,885 ballot boxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":417304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417303","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\/417303","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=417303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417306,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417303\/revisions\/417306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}