{"id":8372,"date":"2018-06-24T22:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2018-06-24T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T21:32:25","slug":"erdogan-declares-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/erdogan-declares-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan declares election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8373\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Erdugan.jpg\" alt=\"Erdugan\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday evening declared victory in Turkey&#8217;s presidential and parliamentary elections.<br \/>\n\u201cOur nation gave me the duty of the presidency and executive power,\u201d Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul, citing unofficial results, which would make him Turkey&#8217;s first leader under a presidential system of government.<br \/>\nHe also stated that his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and the People\u2019s Alliance \u2013 an alliance between the AK Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) \u2013 also secured a parliamentary majority, according to the unofficial results.<br \/>\nErdogan underlined that ballot security and the freedom to vote were an expression of the power of Turkish democracy.<br \/>\n\u201cTurkey gives lessons in democracy to the world with its almost 90 percent voter turnout,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe Turkish leader called for everyone to leave behind all election campaign arguments, tensions, and resentment to focus on the country\u2019s future.<br \/>\nAccording to unofficial results, with 96.31 percent of ballots counted, Erdogan got 52.68 percent of the vote.<br \/>\nThe AK Party-MHP People\u2019s Alliance also apparently secured a parliamentary majority with a combined vote of 53.69 percent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/erdogan-declares-election-victory\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday evening declared victory in Turkey&#8217;s presidential and parliamentary elections. \u201cOur nation gave me the duty of the presidency and executive power,\u201d Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul, citing unofficial results, which would make him Turkey&#8217;s first leader under a presidential system of government. He also stated that his ruling Justice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8374,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/8374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}