{"id":1940034,"date":"2023-05-28T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turkeys-erdogan-wins-5th-term-as-president-extending-rule-into-3rd-decade\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:24:01","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-wins-5th-term-as-president-extending-rule-into-3rd-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turkeys-erdogan-wins-5th-term-as-president-extending-rule-into-3rd-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan wins 5th term, ruling for 3 decades."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fturkeys-erdogan-wins-5th-term-as-president-extending-rule-into-3rd-decade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Turkey&#8217;s Erdogan Wins Re-election<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>ANKARA, Turkey (AP) \u2014 Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade in a country reeling from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With nearly 99% of ballot boxes opened, unofficial results from competing news agencies showed Erdogan with 52% of the vote, compared with 48% for his challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.<\/p>\n<p>In his first comments since the polls closed, Erdogan spoke to supporters on a campaign bus outside his home in Istanbul. \u201cI thank each member of our nation for entrusting me with the responsibility to govern this country once again for the upcoming five years,\u201d he said. He ridiculed his challenger for his loss, saying \u201cbye bye bye, Kemal,\u201d as supporters booed.<\/p>\n<h3>Implications for Turkey and Beyond<\/h3>\n<p>Supporters of the divisive populist were celebrating even before the final results arrived, waving Turkish or ruling party flags, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ottawa-police-brutalize-78-year-old-man-for-honking\/\" title=\"Ottawa Police Brutalize 78-Year-Old Man for Honking\">honking car horns<\/a>, chanting his name and \u201cin the name of God, God is great.\u201d With a third term, Erdogan will have an even stronger hand domestically and internationally, and the election results will have implications far beyond Ankara. Turkey stands at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and it plays a key role in NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan\u2019s government vetoed Sweden\u2019s bid to join NATO and purchased Russian missile-defense systems, which prompted the United States to oust Turkey from a U.S.-led fighter-jet project. But it also helped broker a crucial deal that allowed Ukrainian grain shipments and averted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-food-crisis-ukraine-war-will-have-catastrophic-effect-on-global-food-supply-agri-org\/\" title=\"\u2018Global Food Crisis\u2019 Ukraine War Will Have \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 Effect on Global Food Supply - Agri Org\">global food crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Sharp Differences in Vision<\/h3>\n<p>The two candidates offered sharply different visions of the country\u2019s future, and its recent past. Critics blame Erdogan\u2019s unconventional economic policies for skyrocketing inflation that has fueled a cost-of-living crisis. Many also faulted his government for a slow response to the earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan has retained the backing of conservative voters who remain devoted to him for lifting Islam\u2019s profile in the Turkey, which was founded on secular principles, and for raising the country\u2019s influence in world politics.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan, 69, could remain in power until 2028. A devout Muslim, he heads the conservative and religious Justice and Development Party, or AKP. Erdogan transformed the presidency from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-post-election-crisis-continues-malaysian-king-set-to-pick-pm\/\" title=\"As Post-Election Crisis Continues, Malaysian King Set to Pick PM\">largely ceremonial role<\/a> to a powerful office through a narrowly won 2017 referendum that scrapped Turkey\u2019s parliamentary system of governance. He was the first directly elected president in 2014, and won the 2018 election that ushered in the executive presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of Erdogan\u2019s tenure included reforms that allowed the country to begin talks to join the European Union, and economic growth that lifted many out of poverty. But he later moved to suppress freedoms and the media and concentrated more power in his own hands, especially after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defiant-mark-meadows-slams-the-democrats-theyre-not-going-to-intimidate-me\/\" title=\"Defiant Mark Meadows Slams the Democrats: \u2018They\u2019re Not Going to Intimidate Me\u2019\">failed coup attempt<\/a> that Turkey says was orchestrated by the U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen. The cleric denies involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan\u2019s rival is a soft-mannered former civil servant who has led the pro-secular Republican People\u2019s Party, or CHP, since 2010. Kilicdaroglu campaigned on promises to reverse Erdogan\u2019s democratic backsliding, to restore the economy by reverting to more conventional policies, and to improve ties with the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won reelection, securing his third decade in power. The country is facing high inflation and the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Unofficial results from various news agencies show Erdogan with 52% of the vote, with almost 99% of ballot boxes opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[18862,7854,13761,5782,9095,5745],"class_list":["post-1940034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-5th","tag-decades","tag-erdogan","tag-ruling","tag-term","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}