Election board confirms victory of incumbent over opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu after runoff
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has extended his two decades in power, securing victory over his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu after an unprecedented presidential runoff election, in a vote that reflected Turkey’s stark and persistent political polarisation.
With 99.43% of the vote counted, Turkey’s supreme election authority announced late on Sunday that Erdoğan had won 52.14% of the votes, while Kılıçdaroğlu received 47.86%. With a gap of more than 2mvotes between candidates, the rest of the uncounted votes will not change the result, said Ahmet Yener, the head of the election board.