The live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the Turkish election updates for Sunday, May 28.
The live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the Turkish election updates for Sunday, May 28.
- Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thanked voters after unofficial results showed him winning Turkey’s first-ever presidential election run-off.
- The head of the Supreme Election Council said that Erdogan had won, after the state-run Anadolu Agency had earlier given Erdogan a decisive lead over his rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, with nearly all of the votes from Sunday’s election counted.
- Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for 20 years, will now serve another five-year term.
- Foreign leaders issue statements congratulating the 69-year-old for his election victory.