Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wins Re-Election

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won re-election, holding a roughly 5-percent lead over his presidential run-off opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Sunday, according to reports from Turkish news agencies.

Erdogan led with about 52 percent of the vote compared to Kilicedaroglu’s 48 percent after nearly 99 percent of the vote had been counted, according to the Associated Press. It comes weeks after Erdogan narrowly missed an outright win during the country’s presidential elections on May 14, where he held 49.5 percent of the vote.

Erdogan claimed victory on Sunday, speaking to supporters from a campaign bus in Istanbul.

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