Work of a century has been done in Türkiye over the past 20 years, the Turkish Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum said after voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Istanbul, Report informs.
"We will continue our struggle to the end in the name of the great and powerful Türkiye. We are fighting and will continue to fight for our country's economy to become one of the strongest in the world," he added.
The voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye began at 08:00 local time (GMT+3) and will continue until 17:00.
There are more than 191,000 polling stations in the country, and 64,113,941 voters have been registered. Of these, about 5 million people will exercise their right to vote for the first time.
Three politicians are vying for the presidency - incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Republican People's Party chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Sinan Oğan, an Ata İttifakı (Ancestral Alliance) candidate. The fourth candidate, the chairman of the Fatherland Party, Muharrem Ince, announced his withdrawal from the presidential race three days before the elections.