Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Commission announces Erdogan’s victory in the presidential elections

Ankara (ST): Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Commission announced that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the candidate of the People’s Alliance, won the presidency after defeating his rival, the opposition People’s Alliance candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the second round of the presidential elections.

The head of the Commission Ahmed Yanar said in a press conference: Erdogan won 52.14 percent of the vote, while Kilicdaroglu got 47.68 percent of the vote, after counting 99.50 percent of the vote.

The Turks cast their votes in more than 191 thousand ballot boxes in 81 states in order to elect a new president for the country for a period of 5 years.

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