Turkey election: Turks head to the polls to decide if Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes rule into third decade

'This is a pretty historic day for Turkey' Sky's AlexCrawfordSky reports from Istanbul as poll open for the presidential run-off. Read more here 👉 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

A win in parliamentary elections for a coalition of his conservative Islamist-rooted AK Party , the nationalist MHP and others, also offered Mr Erdogan a boost. He says a vote for him is a vote for"stability".earlier this year, the incumbent president faced widespread criticism for a sluggish response.

His 74-year-old opponent, Mr Kilicdaroglu, is the candidate of a six-party opposition alliance, and leads the Republican People's Party created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder.The election will decide who leads Turkey, a country of 85 million people, and how it is governed.And the country's foreign policy could also be shaped by the election.

Turkey hosts the most refugees of any nation on Earth, with some five million migrants, more than three million of whom are Syrian, according to Interior Ministry data.

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