Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the presidential election in Turkey: The 60-year-old Prime Minister had already reached the first ballot an absolute majority.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the presidential election in Turkey in the first ballot. After counting 98 percent of votes, the chairman of the Islamic-conservative AKP is 52.2 percent. The report Turkish TV channels. According to the news agency Reuters ACP Vice Mustafa Sentop said the 60-year-old winner. So did Justice Minister Bekir Bozda on his Twitter account.

The nation has shown its will, Erdogan said. He will speak later, when all the votes were counted.

For the first time the Turkish president is elected directly by the people. Erdogan called it the ball in his ballot in Istanbul’s Uskudar as “very, very important event in the political history of Turkey”. He was accompanied by his wife Emine and his four children.

Erdogan seeks two terms of five years each. According to his will is the head of state, which had been more representative tasks, be given new powers.
In Turkey, about 53 million people were eligible to vote. There were 2.8 million electors Turks abroad, of which only 8.3 per cent cast their votes.

Polls had the election victory of Erdogan already indicated: Despite the violent crackdown against protesters in the state last summer and despite a corruption scandal, the majority of Turks for his success, as for the economic advancement of the country and the development of infrastructure celebrates him.

Erdogan Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu competitor, joint candidate of the main opposition party CHP and the nationalist MHP, spoke of unjust conditions. The election campaign was conducted under “unequal conditions,” he said, according to the Anatolia news agency.

The opposition had accused Erdogan to use state resources during the campaign. The state broadcaster TRT Erdogan acknowledged, according to a data collection from July 4 to 6 far more air time than its competitors in a Ihsanoglu Selahattin Demirtas and, the candidate of the left Kurdish HDP.

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