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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has defied the polls to lead his main rival in the first round of voting in Turkey’s make-or-break presidential election.

Anadolu news agency says AK Party won 266 seats and opposition CHP coalition won 166 in the 600-seat parliament.

Neither the president nor Kilicdaroglu cleared the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a second round on May 28.

Last weekend, Turkey held a historic election that will be crucial in deciding in the way the country is heading. Although almost all pre-election polls were predicting a narrow win for the main opposition candidate, the results are inconclusive, and the country will go to a runoff election in two…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s beats opposition candidate comfortably in first round of voting – but falls short of outright win

Turkey headed for a runoff vote after President Tayyip Erdogan led over his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday's election but fell short of an outright majority to extend his 20-year rule of the NATO-member country.

President Tayyip Erdogan led comfortably on Monday after the first round of Turkey's presidential election, with his rival facing an uphill struggle to prevent the president extending his rule into a third decade in a runoff vote on May 28.

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Turkey’s presidential elections appear to be heading toward a second-round runoff