On Sunday morning, Recep Tayyip Erdogan voted in a high school in Istanbul, in the most critical elections in Turkey in recent decades.

The Turkish president, along with his wife, Emine, subversively waited their turn outside the polling station while the cameras recorded them.

In a… spontaneous act of love, the philanthropic Turkish president talks to children, to whom he hands out Turkish liras.

The president of Turkey, after casting his vote, thanked the members of the polling station for the process and then made statements to reporters.

“A profitable future” for the country and its democracy was wished by the outgoing president, however speaking somewhat slowly and subdued. “It is important that all voters vote smoothly until 5 p.m. to show the strength of Turkish democracy,” Erdogan said without making a prediction for his victory.