Recep Tayyip Erdogan is winning the presidential elections in Turkey, with about 52% of the vote.
In the electoral race for the post of head of state Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu also nominated, who received 38% of the vote and Selahattin Demirtas, Kurdish politician and leader of both the left-wing Party of the People, who managed to get about 10%.
Erdogan, who spoke immediately after the release of preliminary results, said the people failed to show his will. While Ihsanoglu, the joint candidate of the two main opposition parties congratulated his opponent for the victory. "I congratulate Mr. Prime Minister and wish him success," said Ihsanoglu.
Erdogan made the country's first president elected by the people, after more than a decade as prime minister of the country, during which Turkey has emerged as a regional economic power, but with wide support religious conservative, it is transforming many of the secular republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923.
In this election he managed to get more than 50% + 1 of the vote, was declared the winner in this round.
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