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Istanbul - 24 June 2018
1. Election officers burning off ballot box seal
2. Election officers open ballot box
3. Various of election officers calling out ballots, registering votes and counting ballots
STORYLINE:
Counting has started in Instabul after polls closed in Turkey's presidential and legislative elections.
The elections could consolidate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hold on power or curtail his vast political ambitions.
It will complete Turkey's transition to a new executive presidential system, a move approved in a controversial referendum last year.
Erdogan, who has been in power since 2003, is vying for a new five-year term with vastly increased powers under the new system.
His ruling religious-conservative Justice and Development Party, or AKP, is hoping to retain its majority in parliament.
Erdogan is however facing a more robust and united opposition, which has vowed to return Turkey to a parliamentary democracy with strong checks and balances.
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