President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, head of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), secured another five years in office in a tight runoff election on May 28.
According to Turkey’s official election commission, Erdogan won approximately 52 percent of the vote, while Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the People’s Republican Party (CHP), garnered roughly 48 percent.
Addressing supporters in Istanbul’s Uskudar district, Erdogan thanked all those who voted and “gave us a mandate to govern for another five years.”
Turnout stood at more than 85 percent of the country’s 64 million eligible voters, including almost two million Turkish expatriates who cast their ballots abroad….