Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election overnight, in a victory that extends his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade. 9News
The two candidates offered sharply different visions of the country's future, and its recent past.
"I'm not happy at all with the way this country is going. Let me be clear, if this current administration continues, I don't see good things for the future," he said."I see that it will end badly — this administration has to change.""I believe that our homeland is at the peak, in a very good condition," the 57-year-old shop owner said.
Erdogan's rival was a soft-mannered former civil servant who has led the pro-secular Republican People's Party, or CHP, since 2010. Kilicdaroglu campaigned on promises to reverse Erdogan's democratic backsliding, to restore the economy by reverting to more conventional policies, and to improve ties with the West.
Erdogan's response to the protests, in which eight people were convicted for alleged involvement, was a harbinger of a crackdown on civil society and freedom of expression.
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