"I thank my nation for giving us a democracy holiday," EDnews reports.
Republican Union candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during his speech in Istanbul.
He thanked the citizens who went to the polling stations and expressed their will: "I congratulate our citizens, our youth, and our party members. I thank every citizen who trusted us in the country for the next 5 years. Hopefully, we will be worthy of your trust. As we have been for 21 years, it will be the same now." .
"I thank every member of our nation who once again entrusted us with the responsibility of managing the country in the next 5 years by their own choice," Erdogan said.
He added that this is the victory of the entire Turkish people.
