The country’s runoff election came to an end on May 28 with the incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan securing the presidency. The win will extend his two decades in power by five more years. Erdogan obtained 52.14 percent of the second round of the vote while his challenger, reformer Kemal Kilicdaroglu, lost with 47.86 percent.
Erdogan, the country’s longest-serving leader since the founding of the modern Turkish republic, has been described as…