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Live Blog Update| Turkey elections 2023

Polls open in Turkey's presidential election run-off

Good morning MEE readers,

Millions of people have begun voting in Turkey's presidential run-off that could see incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan overcome his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

More than 60 million are expected to vote, with a high voter turnout of up to 85 percent expected.

Sunday's voting will begin at 8am local time (05:00 GMT) and end at 5pm (14:00 GMT).

By late Sunday there should be a clear indication of the winner.

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