Turkish President Erdogan re-elected for a third term

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected as the Turkish leader for another term in the country's presidential runoff vote on 28 May 2023.

His re-election has helped him to extend his rule for a third term after defeating the main opposition's presidential candidate,Kemal Kilicdaroglu when he secured 52.14 percent of the votes.

Erdogan was seen hands out money to his supporters which were gathered outside the polling station where he cast his ballot in the presidential election runoff.

Foreign leaders has congratulated him for his victory on one of the toughest elections in the history of his political career.

One of the leaders who were first to congratulate Erdogan was the embattled President of the Russian Federation,Vladimir Putin.

Other world leaders who congratulated Erdogan are as follows:Indonesian President Joko Widodo,Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky,US President Joe Biden and many others.

Even the South African President,Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated him,and he said South Africa looks forward to working with Turkey under President Erdogan to consolidate existing strong relations at the bilateral and multilateral levels.

The 69-year old Turkish political leader was elected for the first time as the head of state on 28 August 2014,and he was elected as the 12th President of Turkey.

Before he won the 2014 presidential elections he was serving as the Prime Minister of Turkey of which was the position he held since 2003 up until 2014.

He became the darling of the Turkish people while he was a Mayor of Instabul back in 1994 where he revived an ailing economy of the city and aging infrastructure and many other things that were neglected by previous leaders.

He serves as a Leader of Justice and Development Party(AKP) which he co-founded twenty-one years ago after abandoning Virtue Party,his political party has more than 11,000,000 members in the year 2023.

His main challenger a 74-year-old Kemal Kilicdaroglu a Turkish economist,retired civil servant and social democratic politician -also a leader of the Republican People's Party.