Turkey Votes on Erdogan Future as Challengers Call Foul Play
- Turkish citizens voting for all-powerful president, parliament
- Turkey elections mark transformation to presidential system
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Hours into Sunday’s presidential election, Turkey’s main opposition parties complained that voting has been marred by irregularities to favor incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Sadi Guven, head of the country’s election board, said a probe is under way into allegations of irregularities during voting in the town of Suruc near the southern border with Syria, according to Hurriyet newspaper. “There are complaints coming from the east and the southeast,” Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, said after voting in the capital Ankara.