en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_presidential_election,_2014
A bit old news, but news nonetheless.
Confirming the gallups' predictions, the prime-minister of Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected as the new President, succeeding Abdullah Gül, from the first round.
Despite several estimations about the impact of last year's protests and Soma's mine disatser, the majority of the voters insisted on considering him as an appropriate ruler.
Of course, it worths to be mentioned that his influence is located mainly in relatively backward, less urbanized regions, as this image shows:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
An autocratic, islamist, with tendancies of violently promoting Turkish interests in the Middle East or a successful negotiator with the Kurds, responsible for the financial imrovement of his country?
Personally, the party I would support did not participate in the elections, but still, I would a victory of his main opponent, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, as he seems to a smaller threat to the Turkish citizens' rights, from freedom of religion to syndicalism.
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