Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 29 May 2023

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1. Erdoğan wins Turkish election

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s long-standing president, has secured another five years in power after the national election. “The entire nation of 85 million won,” he told cheering crowds outside his palace. In most provinces, “streets were filled with jubilant supporters of the president”, as “cars honked horns and people waved Turkish flags and posters of Erdoğan”, said Daily Sabah. However, the BBC said that the president’s “call for unity sounded hollow” as he “ridiculed his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu - and took aim at a jailed Kurdish leader and pro-LGBT policies”.

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