After defeating the opposition's leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the run-off vote on Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now been in power for a third decade.
Erdogan was declared the winner with 52.14% of the vote, according to the preliminary official results released by Turkey's Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Sunday. Kilicdaroglu got 47.86% of the vote.
Speaking to thousands of his supporters outside the presidential complex in Ankara, Erdogan said that now was the time to “put aside all the debates and conflicts regarding the election period and unite around our national goals and dreams.”
“We are not the only winners, the winner is Turkey. The winner is all parts of our society, our democracy is the winner,” Erdogan said.
Erdogan said among the government’s main priorities would be fighting inflation and healing the wounds from a catastrophic earthquake on February 6 which claimed more than 50,000 lives in Turkey and neighboring Syria
Since taking office 20 years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has transformed Turkey into a political powerhouse, transforming it more than any other leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the renowned founder of the modern republic. From modest beginnings, Erdogan has become a political giant.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demonstrated Turkey as a regional power, supported islamist causes, and been swift to outmaneuver political opposition, first as prime minister from 2003 and then as a directly elected president since 2014.
Erdogan was declared the winner with 52.14% of the vote, according to the preliminary official results released by Turkey's Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Sunday. Kilicdaroglu got 47.86% of the vote.
Speaking to thousands of his supporters outside the presidential complex in Ankara, Erdogan said that now was the time to “put aside all the debates and conflicts regarding the election period and unite around our national goals and dreams.”
“We are not the only winners, the winner is Turkey. The winner is all parts of our society, our democracy is the winner,” Erdogan said.
Erdogan said among the government’s main priorities would be fighting inflation and healing the wounds from a catastrophic earthquake on February 6 which claimed more than 50,000 lives in Turkey and neighboring Syria
Since taking office 20 years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has transformed Turkey into a political powerhouse, transforming it more than any other leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the renowned founder of the modern republic. From modest beginnings, Erdogan has become a political giant.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demonstrated Turkey as a regional power, supported islamist causes, and been swift to outmaneuver political opposition, first as prime minister from 2003 and then as a directly elected president since 2014.
