Turkey Latest: Erdogan Set to Win Runoff With 97% Open Ballots
Turkey's presidential election candidates on ballots at a polling station in Ankara, Turkey, on May 28.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is leading Sunday’s runoff vote with a comfortable margin, setting the stage for a victory that will extend his more than two-decade rule by another five years.
The country’s longest-serving leader had 52.2% of the votes with more than 97% of ballot boxes counted, while his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu had 47.8%, according to state-run news agency Anadolu.