Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been declared the winner in the country’s unprecedented presidential run-off – extending his two-decade grip on power for another five years.
The head of Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK), which tracks the official results, said that Mr Erdogan was elected as the new president with 52.14 per cent of the votes, compared to 47.86 per cent for his challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. With more than 99 per cent of the ballots counted, the YSK chairperson, Ahmet Yener, said Mr Erdogan’s lead of 2 million votes could not be caught.
