ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declares victory in a historic runoff election that posed the toughest challenge of his two-decade rule, AFP reported.
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“We will be ruling the country for the coming five years,” Erdogan tells his cheering supporters from atop a bus in his home district in Istanbul. “God willing, we will be deserving of your trust.”
Official final results have not yet been released, but data based on the vast majority of ballot boxes counted showed Erdogan leading with roughly 52 percent support.
Erdogan's victory came after he weathered some of his toughest political headwinds yet, appealing to voters with nationalist and conservative rhetoric during a divisive campaign that deflected attention from deep economic troubles.
The defeat of Kilicdaroglu, who promised to set the country on a more democratic and collaborative path, will likely be cheered in Moscow but mourned in Western capitals and much of the Middle East after Turkey took a more confrontational and independent stance in foreign affairs.
Erdogan's victory came after he weathered some of his toughest political headwinds yet, appealing to voters with nationalist and conservative rhetoric during a divisive campaign that deflected attention from deep economic troubles.
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