ALBAWABA - Polling stations opened across Turkey for crucial parliamentary and presidential elections on Sunday, polls started at 8:00 a.m. (5:00 GMT) and will close at 5:00 p.m.
Turks will be electing both a president and parliament for a five-year term, nearly 61 million Turkish citizens, including more than 3.4 million expatriates, are eligible to vote in the elections.
Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking another term in office, while the opposition candidates are Kemal Kilicdaroglu of Nation's Alliance and Sinan Ogan of Ata Alliance.
Muharrem Ince, another presidential contender, withdrew from the race on Thursday.
A candidate must secure over 50 percent of the vote to win elections. Otherwise, Turkey will head to a run-off on May 28.
Voters in Turkey need to show their identity cards or other official identification documents at polling stations.
Then, each voter is given two separate ballot papers, one for the presidential election and one for the parliamentary election.
Voters mark their ballot papers in the booth and then place them in envelopes.
