ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade in a country reeling from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities. In his first comments since the polls closed, Erdogan spoke to supporters on a campaign bus outside his home in Istanbul. “The only winner today is Turkey,” Erdogan said. Erdogan, who has been at Turkey’s helm for 20 years, came just short of victory in the first round of elections on May 14. In his victory speech, he repeated those themes, saying LGBTQ people cannot “infiltrate” his ruling party or its nationalist allies.
