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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey premier wins presidential vote: Unofficial results |
| 2014-08-11 |
| [Iran Press TV] Turkey's outgoing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they like that sort of thing in Turkey... has won the country's presidential election, unofficial results say. According to the results, which are based on Turkish media count, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) candidate won almost 52 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential election. "The people showed their will at the polls today," Erdogan said in a brief speech in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Sunday evening. Erdogan's main rival Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is said to have won nearly 39 percent of the vote. Former head of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ihsanoglu, 71, was the joint candidate of the center-left Republican People's Party (CHP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). "I hope that the result is beneficial for democracy in Turkey," Ihsanoglu said in Istanbul. "I congratulate the prime minister and wish him success." Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has reportedly won the third place with slightly more than nine percent of the vote. Official results of the election are not expected before Monday. Erdogan, who has promised tens of thousands of voters backing him in the election a strong and new Turkey, is going to fly to the capital Ankara for a victory speech. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu who finished 2nd is a former academic who was SecGen of the Org of Islamic Cooperation for a decade ending earlier this year. He had never been elected to anything previously. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-08-11 11:27 |