NNA - The counting of votes began in the second round of the Turkish presidential elections, amid intense competition between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the head of the Republican People's Party, the largest opposition party, Kamal Kilicdaroglu.

Polling stations closed across Turkey at 5:00 pm local time, in preparation for the counting of votes in a ballot in which 60 million voters participated, according to "Russia Today".

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