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World leaders have congratulated Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he won re-election  in a historic run-off that posed the biggest challenge to his 20 years in power. Erdogan  won Turkey’s presidency with 52.14 percent of the votes, said the head of the Supreme Election Council, Ahmet Yener, on Sunday, making the results official. With 99.43 percent of ballot boxes opened, Erdogan’s rival  Kemal Kilicdaroglu  received 47.86 percent of votes, Yener said. With a gap of more than two million votes between candidates, the rest of the uncounted ballots will not change the result, he added. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Ui-iQFIS8 The elections, in which more than 64 million Turks at home and abroad were entitled to vote, took place against a background of a cost-of-living crisis that saw inflation peak at 85 percent in October and  earthquakes  in February that killed more than 50,000 people. Erdogan, 69, who came to power in 2003, initially as prime mi...

Turkey's president,  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , won re-election Sunday in a tense run-off after he failed to secure more than 50 percent of votes required for an outright victory in the first round on May 14 in the strongest challenge to his 20-year rule. Turkish public broadcaster TRT called the presidential election for incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. State-run news agency Anadolu’s vote count shows Erdoğan leading opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu 52.11% to 47.89% with 98.52% of the vote counted. https://twitter.com/KarinaKarapety8/status/1662876007081164800 "We have completed the second round of the presidential election with the favor of our nation," Erdoğan said following the tally. "I would like to express my gratitude to my people who made us live this democracy holiday. We will deserve your trust." Erdogan cast his vote at a voting center in Istanbul on Sunday. “This is a first in Turkish democratic history,” he said. “Turkey,...

India is holding a key G20 summit in Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) amid heightened security and opposition from China. A fter China, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also ‘decided’ to skip the G20 summit in picturesque Srinagar of IIOJK. The Indian efforts have suffered a major blow as a number of G20 countries have either refused to attend a tourism moot scheduled or skipped registration to attend the three-day gathering starting Monday will take place at a sprawling, well-guarded venue on the shores of Dal Lake in Srinagar. Turkey has consistently leaned towards Pakistan on the Kashmir dispute and the country has also raised the Kashmir issue at international forums. Turkey brought up the issue in the United Nations General Assembly and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), urging the international community to play a more active role in finding a solution and addressing the human rights concerns in Illegally ...