Turkey: 100 percent of votes have been counted

ANKARA

Turkey's top election body has shared results of Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections with political parties as 100 percent of the votes have been counted.

“We have put 100 percent of the votes, cast both inside and outside of the country, in to process and shared them with all political parties,” Sadi Guven, head of the Supreme Election Council, told reporters said on Tuesday.

On Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won an absolute majority in the presidential poll with 52.5 percent of the vote while his closest rival Muharrem Ince received 30.6 percent, according to unofficial results.

Reporting by Ferdi Turkten:Writing by Sorwar Alam