Turkey Said YES To Erdogan One More Time
Turkey Said YES To Erdogan One More Time: Turkish people has elected Erdogan as their new lead one more time. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a new mandate in presidential elections in the first round of voting by winning more than half of the votes, the chief of Turkey´s election authority.
“President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the absolute majority of all valid votes,” the head of the Supreme Election Committee (YSK) Sadi Guven told reporters in Ankara, without giving further details or numbers after Sunday´s polls.
Results released by Turkey´s state-run Anadolu news agency based on data from the YSK also gave Erdogan a clear majority of votes.
Erdogan won 52.5 percent in the presidential poll while his main rival Muharrem Ince, of the secular Republican People´s Party (CHP), was on 31.7 percent, Anadolu news agency said, based on a 99 percent vote count.
The YSK is to announce final results on Friday.
Earlier, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had declared victory , citing what he said was a public mandate for him and the alliance led by his ruling AK Party.
Erdogan the most popular, and divisive, leader in recent Turkish history, said there would be no turning back from where he and the Islamist rooted AK Party had brought the economy.
“Our people have given us the job of carrying out the presidential and executive posts,” he said in a short speech from Istanbul.”
“I hope nobody will try to cast a shadow on the results and harm democracy in order to hide their own failure.”
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has led Turkey for 15 years as prime minister and then as president. As he declares victory in Sunday´s election, here is a look back at key periods during his time in power.
Erdogan´s Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) sweeps to power in 2002 parliamentary elections, just a year after being founded, taking 363 of 550 seats in a crushing blow to the outgoing coalition.
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