Turkish president: elected in the first round, Erdogan sits his reign … – TF1

Turkish president: elected in the first round, Erdogan sits his reign … – TF1

The Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan , in power since 2003, was elected president of the Sunday Turkey for a term of five years will extend his reign unchallenged over the country and already feeds the criticism over its authoritarian tendencies. As suggested by the polls, the strongman of the country has significantly outperformed both opponents in the first round of the elections played for the first time by direct universal suffrage, with nearly 52% of votes. Common candidate of the Social Democratic and nationalist opposition, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, a renowned historian of 70 years who headed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), was attended by nearly 39% of the vote, while the minority Kurdish, Selahattin Demirtas, has gathered more than 9%.

Although it is far from the tidal wave predicted by some polls, this victory is a success for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who joins the founder of the secular republic father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, one of the iconic leaders.

As soon elected president, Erdogan will pray in a mosque in Istanbul

A favorite of this election, the president-elect has already indicated that he would retain the reins of Turkey as president, he wants to significantly strengthen the powers at the cost of constitutional reform. “The president-elect and the elected government will work hand in hand,” he has said on Sunday dragging his ballot family in Istanbul. As soon as the final results are, the Prime Minister was symbolically returned to Eyüp Sultan Mosque in Istanbul to pray, as did the sultans before the throne of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish television reported.

“I thank all those who worked on this result,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hundreds of supporters gathered outside the mosque, before promising to work for “a better democracy. ” “May God help us in our way,” he added. The head of government was to speak at greater length in the evening from the headquarters of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Unsurprisingly, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has easily taken over his two rivals, after a campaign he crushed his diatribes, financial power of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its grip on the country’s media.

Campaign “unfair”

MM. Ihsanoglu Demirtas and both have acknowledged their defeat but denounced the “unjust” campaign or “disproportionate” led by their rival. Still popular despite the criticism and scandal, Prime Minister himself is able to mobilize his troops widely. “I voted for Erdogan because I believe he is the only leader who can lead our country properly,” he told AFP Zahide, a retired nurse of 52 years, in a polling station in the district Istanbul Sisli. “He fed the poor and took care of many left-nots of our society.” “I’m here to Erdogan can not be elected,” he, conversely, told AFP Melih Kocak, a doctor of 40 years, leaving a polling booth in the neighboring district of Besiktas, “but unfortunately We already know that it will be president. ”

Paradoxically, the expected victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan comes after a policy very difficult year for the camp. In June 2013, millions of Turks denounced the streets its authoritarian and Islamist drift. Severe repression of the revolt seriously damaged the durégime picture. Last winter, it’s a corruption scandal splashed unprecedented power. Erdogan denounced a “conspiracy” of his former ally Islamist Fethullah Gülen, before purging the police and to muzzle social media and justice.