Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has declared the elections a vote on its future. Well first counts to see him and his AKP actually front – but in the cities of Istanbul and Ankara, Antalya  also claims the opposition to victory.

It will be a long night in Turkey. At 19.15 clock, the first municipal election results were reported, and who see the AKP of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan far forward. The conservative Islamic party, the indications were likely to again be the strongest political force – and possibly reach than the 38.8 percent significantly more in the last local elections of 2009. So far, however, only 20 percent of the votes are counted.

In the most competitive cities Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir, the first counts were, according to the respective office holders in front, reported in several Turkish television station. Thus would the capital Ankara and the country’s largest city, Istanbul, remain in the hands of the AKP, Izmir, however, further governed by a mayor of the secular-Kemalist CHP.

During the evening claimed in Ankara and Istanbul but both AKP and CHP election victory and accused each other of vote rigging before. From several parts of the country were allegations that the elections were falsified. Most manipulation allegations directed against the AKP. However, an independent review was not possible.

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Sadi Güven, President of the Electoral Commission, said at a press conference in the evening, the official election results could “may differ significantly from what state the TV station just” be. “Final” and “reliable” numbers man “as early as possible” proclaim.

Depending on the political orientation reported television stations, newspapers and news agencies very different numbers. Some saw the AKP in the country just over 40 percent, others at over 50 percent.

The anti-government news agency Cihan News reported a “massive hacker attack” and regretted that she could currently offer only with difficulty updates. Cihan News are among the media, who see in Istanbul the CHP candidate Mustafa Sarigül forward.

Other critical of the government newspapers reported that their websites were not currently callable. For several cities reported voter power outages. This, they criticized, should the counting of ballots and hinder the transmission of results.
In clashes during elections at least eight people were killed. In two villages of the southern provinces of Hatay and Sanliurfa there had been gunfire between members of individual candidates, reported Turkish television station.

The local elections were a test atmosphere for Erdogan, who had fallen in recent months because of his authoritarian style of government and because of a corruption scandal in the criticism. He himself had declared the vote more than once for a referendum on the political future of the country. Maybe he wants to be in August, after eleven years can choose as Prime Minister in the Office of the President.