“The [Turkish state media] Anadolu Agency has stopped updating Turkey’s election returns. And Erdoğan’s party is objecting to results in hundreds of places where it is way behind. These are among the indications that the opposition is doing well—much better perhaps than [Anadolu Agency] has so far let on,” reports Duke University international economics Professor Timur Kuran.
Copied Kuran’s tweet verbatim as to not mince his words on how the Turkish presidential election is going, which sounds not great. Turkish journalist Murat Yetkin corroborates the story, telling the Fox Haber (Murdoch-owned Fox News channel in Turkey) he’s been told that Erdogan commanded the Anadolu Agency and other state-owned broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation to “keep the difference between him and [leading opposition candidate Kemal] Kılıçdaroğlu at around 10 percent” in their reporting on the returns until he makes a statement.