Turkish Supreme Election Council on Thursday, officially declared Recep Tayyip Erdogan as winner of the presidential election runoff with 52.18 per cent of the votes.
In the second round of the presidential election on May 28, a total of 52,093,375 voters cast their ballots in Türkiye, and the voting rate was 85.72 per cent, Ahmet Yener, chair of the election body said.
Erdogan was reelected as the president in the runoff polls where he contested the presidential nominee of the Turkish opposition bloc Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, leader of the center-left Republican People’s Party (CHP).
Kilicdaroglu had 47.82 per cent of the votes, Yener said.
The presidential runoff was held after neither of the candidates secured over 50 per cent of votes in May 14 elections.
Erdogan would take oath at the parliament on Saturday and then announce his new cabinet.
The lawmakers would take oath at the parliament on Friday.
