The camps of the two main candidates for the presidential elections of Turkey as to who is ahead based on the partial results of today’s election.

While most Turkish media, including the state-run Anadolu Agency, give the lead to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu posted on Twitter at around 20:00 that he is the one ahead. “We are ahead” was Kilicdaroglu’s one-word post on twitter.

THE Omer Celikthe representative of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said for his part that based on the initial results, Erdogan is ahead.

Provisional results broadcast by Anadolu show Erdogan leading with 52.55% to Kilicdaroglu’s 41.55%, although the gap narrowed as counting continued.

Speaking of manipulation in the broadcast of preliminary results in previous elections, the mayor of Istanbul, who comes from the opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu said that no one should take into account the initial results broadcast by Anadolu. “We don’t believe Anadolu,” Imamoglu said characteristically.

“We can say it comfortably: Kilicdaroglu will be announced as the 13th president of our country today,” Imamoglu also stressed. And the mayor of Ankara, also from Kilicdaroglu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), said that the opposition candidate is ahead.

Four sources from the opposition camp told Reuters that Kilicdaroglu is narrowly ahead of Erdogan.

TRT Haber TV reported at around 20:35 that with 54.56% of the votes counted, Erdogan was leading with 51.87% to Kilicdaroglu’s 42.28%.

CHP-friendly Halk TV broadcast results giving a slight lead to Kilicdaroglu, 47.71% to Erdogan’s 46.5%.

It is noted that the first results broadcast were expected to give Erdogan a lead, as many of the first vote counts usually come from rural areas, which are the Turkish president’s electoral base.