by Burhanettin Duran at Middle East Eye
Having received 49.5 percent in the first round on 14 May, the Turkish leader took advantage of the ruling People’s Alliance’s parliamentary majority to reach 52 percent quite comfortably.
As world leaders rushed to congratulate Erdogan on his electoral victory, the latest in a political career spanning more than three decades, it goes without saying that Sunday’s vote went down in Turkey’s political history as the last chapter in the epic of his invincibility.
Widely seen as a campaigning genius, the Turkish president, having won both the parliamentary and presidential elections, is expected to show strong leadership over the next five years. In recent days, he has presented various projects to the Turkish people, including new homes for earthquake survivors – and he declared on election night that the electoral marathon was not over.
Insisting that all of Turkey’s 85 million citizens were winners, Erdogan told his AK Party and supporters that their new goal was to win next year’s municipal elections…