Unofficial results in Turkiye's presidential runoff split as counting continues

Preliminary, unofficial results from Turkiye's state Anadolu news agency showed incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead with 76 per cent of ballot boxes counted, while a competing news agency gave a slight lead to the opposition candidate in a presidential runoff that will decide whether the country's longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade. Anadolu showed Erdogan at 54 per cent, and his challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, at 46 per cent. Meanwhile, t