Turkey elections live: vote could end Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s two decades in power | Turkey

Election turnout is expected to be high in this pivotal election. Turkey has a fairly high turnout rate generally: it was around 86% in the previous presidential elections in 2018.

“We are expecting a record turnout in Istanbul, and there are also reports that this is the same across Turkey,” said Canan Kaftancıoğlu, the Istanbul chair of Kılıçdaroğlu’s CHP party.

Istanbul is Turkey’s biggest city and turnout here may be decisive for the election results as the race is expected to go down to the wire.

“Except for one or two individual cases, I would say that our citizens completed the voting process without any trouble or problem,” Kaftancıoğlu said.

She also invited voters to go to polling stations to observe the vote-counting process, regardless of the party they voted for.

Voting was also being monitored by a mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is due to deliver a preliminary statement on its findings on Monday.