Viewfinder: Presidential Elections in Turkey Come to an End

Pacific Standard Staff
June 25, 2018
People react and wave flags outside the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24th, 2018, during the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections.
People react and wave flags outside the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24th, 2018, during the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections. More than 59 million citizens voted in the presidential and parliamentary elections. According to state media reports, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won presidential poll with 53 percent of the vote after nearly all votes have been counted.

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