Erdogan Wins 2023 Turkey Presidential Election
President Tayyip Erdogan has won 2023 Turkey Presidential election.
Erdogan defeated his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu who polled 47.9% votes while he scored Erdogan’s 52.1% according to official run off result announced on Sunday.
He therefore extended his two decades in power to pursue increasingly authoritarian policies which have polarised Turkey and strengthened its position as a regional military power.
Meanwhile, Kemal Kilicdaroglu has called the result as “the most unfair election in years” but did not dispute the outcome.
The election had been seen as one of the most consequential yet for Turkey, with the opposition believing it had a strong chance of unseating Erdogan and reversing his policies after his popularity was hit by a cost-of-living crisis.
Instead, victory reinforced his image of invincibility, after he had already redrawn domestic, economic, security and foreign policy in the NATO member country of 85 million people.
Reuters
