May 29, 2023

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected for his third consecutive presidential term on Sunday, TASS reports.   He will take the oath in the year when the country celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey.   Ahmet Yener, who heads Turkey’s highest election authority, the Supreme Election Council, said late on Sunday that…

World leaders have congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he won re-election in a historic run-off that posed the biggest challenge to his 20 years in power, Al Jazeera reports.   Erdogan won Turkey’s presidency with 52.14 percent of the votes, said the head of the Supreme Election Council, Ahmet Yener, on Sunday, making…