{"id":89700,"date":"2023-05-15T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=89700"},"modified":"2023-05-15T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:57:14","slug":"89700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2023\/05\/89700\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s presidential election enters the second round after the official results are announced."},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey’s highly contested presidential election looks set to go to a second round after President Erdogan failed to get 50% of the votes cast.<\/p>\n

With 97.95% of the votes cast, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Erdogan received 49.34% of the vote, compared to 44.99% for main candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu – meaning neither could claim the lead. automatic win.<\/p>\n

Kilicdaroglu welcomed the hope of holding the repeat elections on May 28, and said that his party will win.<\/p>\n

“If our nation says the second round, we gladly accept it. We will absolutely win this election. Everyone will see that,” said Kemal Kilicdaroglu.<\/p>\n

The leader of Turkey, Erdogan, has faced economic challenges and criticism regarding the effects of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the Turkish opposition has united with one candidate, Kilicdaroglu, representing the electoral coalition of six opposition parties.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if President Erdo\u011fan wins the country’s presidential election, he will be in power for 20 years.<\/p>\n

The election will ultimately decide the fate of a key NATO ally and regional power broker at a time when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown much of the world into uncertainty.<\/p>\n

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Turkey’s highly contested presidential election looks set to go to a second round after President Erdogan failed to get 50% of the votes cast. With 97.95% of the votes cast, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Erdogan received 49.34% of the vote, compared to 44.99% for main candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu – meaning neither could claim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-wararka-caalamka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89728,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89700\/revisions\/89728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}