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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Michael Howie and Anthony France

Turkey: Erdogan is president for five more years after defeating Kilicdaroglu in presidential run-off

Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election on Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade in a country reeling from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.

Voters in Turkey had returned to the polls to decide whether the long-time leader stretched his rule or was unseated by a challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu who promised to restore a more democratic society.

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