Erdogan: Turkey shows it is one of the most advanced democratic cultures

Regarding the outcome of the May 14th elections, Erdogan stressed that he respects the will of the people manifested in the ballot boxes, says Anadolu, broadcasts Klan Kosova.

The May 14th election winner is the country's democracy and Turkey's 85 million-euro nation”, the Turkish president said.

As he stressed, his alliance will win out of the May 28th race, drawing even more votes.

“Hopefully we will achieve a historic success”, he said.

President Erdogan said the Turkish people confirmed “trust in us and in our alliance”, giving “the People's Alliance” a majority in the Turkish parliament in Sunday's elections.

The head of the Supreme Election Council (YSK), Ahmet Yener, announcing the first unofficial results, said that in the first round of voting no presidential candidate managed to pass the required 50 per cent threshold, with what Erdogan, the common candidate of the People's Alliance and Kemal Kılçdaroglu, the candidate who ranked second, will face in the second round of elections on May 28th.

Yener announced that voter turnout in yesterday's elections was 88,92 per cent, while the participation of Turkish citizens abroad was 52,69 per cent.

He also announced that in yesterday's elections Erdogan ranks first by winning 49,51 per cent of the vote, while Kılıcdaroglu won 44,88 per cent of the vote. Sinan Ogan from the ATA Alliance received 5.17 percent, while Muharrem Incre, who withdrew from the presidential race late last week after the ballot was printed, received 0.44 percent.

Millions of voters addressed the ballot boxes yesterday to elect the country's president and 600 deputies from the Turkish Parliament.

More than 64.1 million people were eligible to vote, including over 1.66 million who voted abroad and 4.9 million people who voted for the first time.

A total of 192,214 voting boxes were placed for voters in the country.

Each voter was able to cast two votes -- one for the president and one for the 600 seats in parliament -- which will serve a 5-year term.