Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the political giant with a new order for new Turkey

The election indicated that democracy in its procedural sense is established in Turkey with all its deficits

On June 24, Turkish citizens voted in presidential and parliamentary snap elections, with a huge turnout. As expected, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected president while his Islamo-nationalist bloc allies – the Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) – obtained a parliamentary majority.

While both victories were won by narrow margins, Erdoğan took 52.5 per cent of the vote, coming out well ahead of his opponents. The main opposition candidate, Muharrem İnce, obtained 31 per cent, followed by the leader of new centrist party, Meral Akşener, with 7.3 per cent,