Turkey Confirms Election Runoff, But With Erdogan In Driver's Seat

Turkey Confirms Election Runoff, But With Erdogan In Driver's Seat On Monday Turkey's High Election Board confirmed that the country's two leading candidates from Sunday's election will hold a runoff vote in two weeks, after neither incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor top opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu broke past the 50% threshold needed to win outright in the first round. Erdogan and his AK party's allies are expected to retain a parliamentary majority as a result of the Sunday elections, which saw some of the highest voter turnout in the nation's...