Turkish citizens living abroad have started casting their ballots at airports and customs gates, almost a month before the election date in Turkey, which will take place on November 1.Ballot boxes were set up at the Kapıkule, Hamzabeyli, Ipsala and Dereköy customs gates in the western Turkish border province of Edirne and Kırklareli, as well as Atatürk Airport in Istanbul.Officials said they did not expect "intensive" voting due to it being the end of summer which sees many expatriate Turks returning to their overseas residences.Voting will continue until 5 p.m. local time (1400GMT) on Nov. 1.One Turkish voter living in Germany, Sema Aslantaş, said: "Let's cast votes no more," a reference to the June 7 general election in which no political party was able to take office.Ibrahim Berber said he was living in the German city of Bremen and said: "I am thinking the elections are very precious and important; I wanted to contribute and am happy."Turkish couple Huseyin Emeksiz and his wife Meral were among those citizens who cast their votes at Atatürk Airport."We are happy to have cast our votes and I hope the right [to govern] goes to who is righteous and who works," said Huseyin Emeksiz.Turkey is heading for an early general election after no party succeeded in creating a ruling coalition after the June 7 contest.More than 54 million people will be eligible to vote on Nov. 1.Turkish nationals living abroad will cast their votes at embassies, consulates and border gates.Between May 8 and 31, over a million Turkish citizens living abroad in 54 countries casted their ballots in the June 7 General Elections.There are 2,866,979 Turkish citizens abroad who are eligible to vote.Nearly twice as many overseas Turks had turned out to vote in the June 7 general election than they did in last August's presidential election.Elections in Turkey have the second-highest voter turnout among developed democracies, according to a report released by the Washington-based Pew Research Center.