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Subject: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the majority of votes in Sunday’s high-stakes election, according to election officials -- surviving the…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the majority of votes in Sunday’s high-stakes election, according to election officials -- surviving the most serious challenge yet to his political dominance and tightening his grip on the nation he has ruled for 15 years
Sadi Guven, Turkey’s Supreme Election Board chief, said 97.7% of the votes were counted and "the votes that have not been tallied so far do not change the outcome."
Erdogan had declared himself the winner before the official results were announced. But the opposition cried foul, claiming that state media and the election commission had manipulated the results and saying it was too early to be sure of the outcome
Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics since his rise as prime minister in 2003 and has transformed the nation. He implemented policies that encouraged sustained economic growth and development, he challenged Turkey’s secular foundations by bringing Islamic conservatism to public life and he gutted public institutions by having tens of thousands of people -- many of them his critics -- arrested after a failed military coup in 2016
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