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Turks living in Austria are seizing the chance to vote from abroad for the first time Turkey's first directly-elected president.
Some 2.8 million Turks are eligible to vote from abroad, among them 90,000 in Austria. However, only 6,600 voters in Austria registered for the vote. They may cast their votes on the weekend in Vienna, Salzburg and Hohenems in Vorarlberg province .
Turkey itself goes to the polls on Aug. 10 to choose between current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and two opposition candidates. Until now expatriates were in the past allowed to vote only at Turkey's borders.