Voting begins in Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections

2023-05-14T05:47:59.675Z

Highlights: Presidential and parliamentary elections will not only decide who will lead Turkey, a NATO member of 85 million people. If neither is able to win more than 50 percent of the vote, a run-off will take place on May 28. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Erdogan's main rival, leads a coalition of six opposition parties. The election will decide whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will continue his two-decade-old rule. The vote will also decide which direction the economy takes amid a cost-of-living crisis.

Turks began casting their ballots Sunday morning in one of the most important elections in Turkey's century-long modern history, which will decide whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will continue the rule he began two decades ago.