President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was leading the polls with 70 percent of the votes counted in Turkey's presidential elections.
Erdogan received 55 percent of the vote with his nearest challenger Muharrem Ince of the CHP bagging 29 percent of the vote counted so far.
With more than 62 percent of the parliamentary votes counted, the AK Party's People's Alliance was ahead with 56.7 percent of the votes and the Nation's Alliance was in second place with 32.1 percent of the votes.
Poling earlier came to a close in Turkey where people cast their ballots to vote in a new president and parliament.
Voting started at 0500 GMT (8:00am local time) and ended at 1400 GMT (5:00pm local time).
With the polls officially closed, electoral committees across the country’s 81 provinces started counting the ballots in 180,065 polling stations across the country.
Public broadcaster Turkish Radio Television (TRT) said voter turnout on Sunday was high at around 87 percent in Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
At least 56,322,632 registered voters were eligible to decide on presidential and parliamentary candidates at 180,065 ballot boxes across the country.
By midday, Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other presidential candidates had also cast their ballots. These elections will complete Turkey's transition to a new executive presidential system, a move approved in a referendum in April 2017.
Security forces were deployed throughout the country to make sure the elections are carried out peacefully. Around 531,007 security personnel, including 264,526 police officers, 195,695 gendarmerie officers, 50,793 village guards and 19,993 voluntary village guards were on duty.Erdogan cast his vote in a poll station in Istanbul with his wife, the first lady Emine Erdogan.





