HOT NEWS :Turkey president won reelection
☰ Turkey’s president just won reelection — and a dangerous set of new powers Erdoğan is now the most powerful president in Turkey’s history. By Madeleine Ngo on June 25, 2018 6:40 pm President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the public following the unofficial results of the presidential election on June 24, 2018. Ahmet Dumanli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey was reelected on Sunday — a move which granted the leader more sweeping powers than ever before. “It seems the nation has entrusted me with the duty of the presidency, and to us a very big responsibility in the legislature,” Erdogan said during his victory speech early Monday. “The winner is Turkey, the Turkish nation. The winner is all the aggrieved people in our region, all the oppressed in the world.” Erdoğan has held power in Turkey for 15 years — first as the country’s prime minister from 2003 to 2014,...