The prime minister has won a convincing victory in the presidential election. Now comes the hard part A new era is beginning in Turkey. The resounding victory of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday’s presidential election means that, in five years, when his first presidential term expires, Mr Erdogan will have ruled Turkey for longer than anyone since the founding of the modern republic – longer, indeed, than the founder, Ataturk, himself. Such an accolade is lost neither on Mr Erdogan’s supporters, nor on the president-elect himself, who harbours ambitions to reshape Turkey entirely.
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