President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won the presidential election run-off on Sunday, 28 May.
He defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the runoff vote to extend his rule into a third decade.
Erdogan was declared the winner with 52.14% of the votes, with Kilicdaroglu getting 47.86%, according to the preliminary official results released by Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Sunday.
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Speaking to thousands of his supporters outside the presidential complex in Ankara, Erdogan said that now was the time to “put aside all the debates and conflicts regarding the election period and unite around our national goals and dreams.
“We are not the only winners, the winner is Turkey. The winner is all parts of our society, our democracy is the winner.”
Erdogan stated that the government’s top goals would include battling inflation and treating the wounds of the devastating earthquake that struck the country and neighbouring Syria on February 6, leaving more than 50,000 people dead.
The main opposition, Kilicdaroglu, said he would continue to fight until there is “real democracy” in Turkey.