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Post by Admin on May 15, 2023 20:03:53 GMT
Turkey's President Erdogan is headed for his - and his country's - first presidential runoff vote.
After a tumultuous night which saw rival camps accusing each other of rushing to declare results - neither side got more than the 50 per cent required for overall victory.
Despite polls indicating opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu was narrowly ahead, Mr Erdogan proved he was still a formidable political force - and took the highest proportion of the vote.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2023 19:57:59 GMT
Who will claim victory in Turkey’s historic second round election? CNBC’s Dan Murphy reports from Istanbul.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2023 21:09:48 GMT
LIVE: Turkey Elections 2023 | Turkey Election Runoff 2023 News:Erdogan Pulls Ahead Of Kilicdaroglu
Polls open in Anakara as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the runoff presidential election after neither candidate secured an outright victory in the first round.
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Post by Admin on May 29, 2023 0:44:12 GMT
Turkish President Erdogan has won reelection in a runoff, securing the presidency until 2028.
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Post by Admin on May 29, 2023 8:17:20 GMT
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's supporters celebrated well into the night after Turkey's long-time president secured another five years in power.
"The entire nation of 85 million won," he told cheering crowds outside his enormous palace on the edge of Ankara.
But his call for unity sounded hollow as he ridiculed his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu - and took aim at a jailed Kurdish leader and the LGBT community.
The opposition leader did not explicitly concede victory.
Complaining of "the most unfair election in recent years", Mr Kilicdaroglu said the president's political party had mobilised all the means of the state against him.
President Erdogan ended with just over 52% of the vote, based on near-complete unofficial results. Almost half the electorate in this deeply polarised country did not back his authoritarian vision of Turkey.
Ultimately, Mr Kilicdaroglu was no match for the well-drilled Erdogan campaign, even if he took the president to a run-off second round for the first time since the post was made directly elected in 2014.
But he barely dented his rival's first-round lead, falling more than two million votes behind.
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