{"id":61182,"date":"2018-06-20T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T09:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61182"},"modified":"2018-06-20T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T09:09:54","slug":"record-number-of-turkish-expats-vote-for-june-24-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/record-number-of-turkish-expats-vote-for-june-24-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of Turkish expats vote for June 24 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A record number of Turkish voters living abroad have turned up to cast their votes in Turkey\u2019s presidential and parliamentary elections, Turkey&#8217;s election body announced late Tuesday.<\/h2>\n<p>Voting in Turkey is set to start on June 24, but for expat Turkish citizens voting abroad, the polls are now closed.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish Supreme Election Council (YSK) announced the turnout after expat voting ended in 51 countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to official YSK figures, it reached 48.78 percent, with a total of 1,486,408 Turkish citizens heading to the polls between June 7-19.<\/p>\n<p>Over 3 million Turks living abroad are eligible to vote in the elections.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish citizens living abroad and traveling to Turkey this month can also cast their votes at customs gates until 5 p.m. local time on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Six candidates are running for president while eight political parties are taking part in the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>If the presidential election goes to a second round, voters will go to the polls again on one of the following Sundays.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of Turkish voters living abroad have turned up to cast their votes in Turkey\u2019s presidential and parliamentary elections, Turkey&#8217;s election body announced late Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1,118,101,174,194,1165,188],"tags":[56133,64422],"class_list":["post-61182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-life","category-turkey-politics","tag-presidential-election","tag-turkey-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}