With nearly 99 per cent of ballot boxes opened, unofficial results from competing news agencies showed Erdogan with 52 per cent of the vote.
won re-election Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade in a country reeling from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.
In his first comments since the polls closed, Erdogan spoke to supporters on a campaign bus outside his home in Istanbul. “The only winner today is Turkey,” Erdogan said. He promised to work hard for Turkey’s second century. The country marks its centennial this year.Supporters of the divisive populist were celebrating even before the final results arrived, waving Turkish or ruling party flags, and honking car horns, chanting his name and “in the name of God, God is great.
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