Turkey presidential election decides if Erdogan should have five more years

Turks vote in a presidential run-off to decide on their country's future path.

BBC News, Ankara

The president, who is favourite to win, promises a new era uniting the country around a "Turkish century".Polling stations open at 08:00 and close at 17:00 . The big vote from expats, carried out around the world, has already finished. Opposition parties are deploying an army of volunteers in a bid to ensure no vote-rigging takes place.

It was a swipe at Mr Erdogan's enormous palatial complex on the edge of Ankara which he moved to when he switched from prime minister to president in 2014. After surviving a failed coup in 2016 he took on extensive powers, detained tens of thousands of people and took control of the media. Turkey, however, is deeply polarised, with the president reliant on a support base of religious conservatives and nationalists, while his opposite number's supporters are mainly secular - but many of them are nationalist too.

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