JUST IN: Turkey's President Erdogan declares victory as votes continue to be counted in the country's runoff election
An Erdogan win would be a "Pyhrric victory," one of Kilicdaroglu's advisers tells CNNSupporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have taken to the streets to celebrate the Turkish leader’s lead in the preliminary vote count of Sunday’s presidential runoff.
"This is not a crushing defeat for those who wanted change," Turkey expert Asli Aydintasbas told CNN's Becky Anderson."We are once again looking at a divided country ... both camps want entirely different things for Turkey.”
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