Erdogan Wins Turkish Presidential Elections in Preliminary Results

Preliminary results, according to the Turkish “Anatolia” agency:
After counting 99.80 percent of the votes, President Erdogan won 49.27 percent, while Kilicdaroglu’s percentage was 45.02 percent.

The results, according to the head of the Supreme Election Commission in Türkiye:
Ahmed Yanar, head of the Supreme Election Commission in Turkey, said that Erdogan is leading in the presidential elections by obtaining 49.49 percent, after counting 91.93 percent of the votes.

He added that Kilicdaroglu, the opposition candidate and Erdogan’s main rival, won 44.49 percent of the vote.

Erdogan’s most prominent statements about the preliminary results:

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech to his supporters at the headquarters of the Justice and Development Party in Ankara, that the preliminary results of the elections “show our progress by a large margin.”
• Erdogan emphasized that “we are 2.6 million votes ahead of our closest competitor.”
• They are trying to deceive the people by saying that they are advanced.
• The counting of votes will continue at home and abroad.
• No one will spoil this electoral scene with narrow political calculations.
• We are waiting for the final results, and we expect the numbers to increase with the announcement of the official results.
• We think we will win the first round and if there is a run-off we will respect that.
• The people must remain vigilant until the end of the counting of votes.
• The results of the parliamentary elections show that our alliance achieves the majority.
• The voters who voted for our coalition in Parliament will inevitably side with stability in the presidential elections.
• They are confident of winning the elections from the first round after completing the counting of the votes from abroad.

As for Kilicdaroglu, he said that he would accept the people’s decision to conduct a run-off, adding that President Erdogan did not achieve the results he wanted in the elections.
Kilicdaroglu said in statements along with the leaders of other parties in his alliance that he would defeat Erdogan if a run-off was held, adding that “the statements continue and we will accept a run-off.”