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    Turks choose their president in unprecedented runoff race

    ISTANBUL — Turkey's voters streamed to the polls Sunday for a runoff vote in a rancorous presidential race widely expected to deliver a third term for Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Polls closed at 5 p.m. local time and with roughly 60% of the votes counted, the incumbent was ahead, with 55.26%, according to Turkey's state-news operator Anadolu Agency. The election pits Erdogan, 69, who has dominated ...
    by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times May 28, 2023 7 minutes
    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara on Jan. 4, 2023.

    ISTANBUL — Turkey's voters streamed to the polls Sunday for a runoff vote in a rancorous presidential race widely expected to deliver a third term for Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    Polls closed at 5 p.m. local time and with roughly 60% of the votes counted, the incumbent was ahead, with 55.26%, according to Turkey's state-news operator Anadolu Agency.

    The election pits Erdogan, 69, who has dominated the Turkish political landscape virtually unchallenged for more than two decades, against Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, the leader of a coalition of opposition parties working together with the singular aim of toppling Erdogan. In the early results Sunday, Kilicdaroglu stood at 44.74.%, according to Anadolu.

    The opposition ANKA news agency also showed Erdogan on top but with a narrower lead at 50.06% and Kilicdaroglu at 49.4%, with 88.8% counted.

    The two sides represent widely differing visions for this country of 84 million, which occupies a unique position as a literal land bridge between Europe and Asia, represents one of the world's 20 largest economies and has the second-largest military force in NATO.

    Erdogan wants to cement his image as the leader who refashioned Turkey into an

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