The official Anadolu news agency reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan topped the presidential election results, with more than 40 percent of the ballots counted.
So far, Erdogan, in power for 20 years, won 52.4% of the vote, against 43.8% for opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the agency added.
It appears that the majority of ballots counted so far are in strongly pro-Erdogan areas of northern and eastern Turkey.
However, Kilicdaroglu announced that he was top of the results, ahead of Erdogan.
He wrote on Twitter: “We are in the lead”, rejecting the figures published by the “Anatolia” news agency.
Faik Ozturk, a spokesman for the Republican People’s Party in Kilicdaroglu, said earlier that the opposition’s internal census had shown a “positive” result.
He added: “We will start giving figures when the number of open ballot boxes reaches a significant level.”
In turn, the opposition mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who could appoint a vice-president if Kilicdaroglu wins, asked citizens not to believe the figures published by the “Anatolia” news agency. , and said “We don’t believe (the agency) Anatolia at all.”
On the other hand, the figures of the television channel “Halk TV”, close to the Republican People’s Party, showed a slight increase for Kilicdaroglu of 47.71%, against 46.5% for Erdogan.
“We will not let our fellow citizens be fooled,” Imamoglu commented.
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