Turkey's presidential election is headed for an unprecedented runoff after neither 20-year incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu had secured an outright win Monday morning. With a battered economy, tensions over its relationship with Russia and NATO, and fears over a slide toward authoritarianism, the election in the sharply divided country of 85 million people could hardly come at a more pivotal time. A candidate must get more than 50% of the vote to win the highly-charged race. If no one passes that threshold, the vote goes to a runoff election in the coming weeks. Erdogan is ahead with 49.46% of the vote while Kilicdaroglu, who has pledged to bring change and economic reform, has 44.79%, according to Turkey's Supreme Election Council. Erdogan and his conservative, Islamic-rooted Justice and Development party (AKP) are confident. Whereas Kilicdaroglu, who is representing a united front of six different opposition parties all seeking to unseat

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