Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the second round of Turkey’s presidential election. According to the Supreme Electoral Council, the incumbent president received 52.14 percent of the electorate with almost all votes counted, against 47.86 percent for his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
Earlier Sunday, Erdogan already claimed victory, to which the leader of the opposition party IYI congratulated him.
State media also reported at an early stage that Erdogan had won.
In the first round, Erdogan was just short of an absolute majority with 49.5 percent, so a second round was needed. The 69-year-old Erdogan has now been in power for twenty years, first as prime minister and since 2014 as president.