Erdogan, who won the presidential race with 52.6 percent votes, said: “Our nation made AK Party the winner, but our party could not achieve its target.<\/p>\n
“We should correctly evaluate the fine tuning made by the nation in the ballot boxes.”<\/p>\n
According to the official results announced by Supreme Election Council (YSK), AK Party received 42.56 percent votes (295 seats).<\/p>\n
In the presidential vote, Erdogan received 26,330,823 votes.<\/p>\n
Out of the 59,367,469 registered voters, 51,197,959 had cast their ballots for presidential elections, meaning the turnout stood at 86.24 percent.<\/p>\n
Erdogan said Turkey would enter a new period with the presidential swearing-in ceremony on Monday.<\/p>\n
He also said 22 presidents, 17 prime ministers, deputy presidents and parliament speakers would attend the ceremony.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Erdogan will be sworn in as president for the first time under the new executive presidential system.<\/p>\n
The swearing-in ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. local time (1300 GMT) at the parliament in capital Ankara, a source said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.<\/p>\n
Later, a ceremony will be held at the presidential complex to mark the country\u2019s transition to the presidential system of government.<\/p>\n
The June 24 vote marked Turkey’s transition to an executive presidential system of government, doing away with the prime minister’s post, among other changes.<\/p>\n
Erdogan also said the Turkish parliament opened on April 23, 1920, with prayers in Ankara’s historic Haci Bayram Mosque.<\/p>\n
“We will go to Haci Bayram for Friday prayers before our first Cabinet meeting. We will pray and then we will hold our first Cabinet meeting.”<\/p>\n
Erdogan will announce the first Cabinet under the new presidential system on Monday at 9 p.m.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Erdogan on Saturday told the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s parliamentary group to correctly evaluate the “fine tuning” made by the Turkish nation during the June 24 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,101,174,194,188],"tags":[11843,77997,78016],"class_list":["post-61272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","tag-ak-party","tag-supreme-election-council","tag-turkish-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}