Polling stations closed the Turkish elections at 5 p.m. local time (1500 GMT).
Our correspondent quoted the head of Turkey’s Supreme Election Authority as saying: “The voting process went without any problems.
Our Istanbul correspondent said the station he is in has closed to newcomers, but kept voting open for those who were able to enter at the last moment.
He said security men were preventing people from entering the station after 5:00 p.m., when voting ended.
This is repeated in several regions of Turkey, which can lead to delays in the counting of votes.
In Ankara, our envoy mentioned that the vote counting process started immediately at the office where he was, after it was empty of voters.
Preliminary results should begin to appear successively in Turkey, within an hour of fund closing.
Erdogan’s statement
Turkish President and Popular Alliance candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his first statement after the end of the vote: “The voting process was conducted in a way that suits our democracy.”
He added: “It’s time to hang on to the ballot box…Continue to protect the will of our people until the final results.
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