Millions of people across Turkey celebrated the victory in the second round of presidential elections of incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Turkish politician and prime minister. Born on 26 February 1954 in Istanbul.

Supporters of Erdogan, who was the presidential candidate of the Republican Alliance, celebrated all night in the streets and squares of many cities across the country.

Hundreds of thousands of jubilant people gathered in the metropolis of Istanbul and the capital Ankara, where the president addressed supporters overnight from the balcony of the presidential palace Beştepe. Erdogan said 320,000 people had gathered in the palace.

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People carried Turkish flags, flags of the ruling Justice and Development Party, and flags of the Nationalist Movement Party, the main ally of Erdogan's Republican Alliance. The president's supporters cheered by chanting slogans in support of him and singing the song dedicated to Erdogan. Some of them played horo, BTA reported.

In front of the Beştepe palace, until late at night, joyful citizens with young children and babies flocked, although light rain was falling in the capital. Ankara's boulevards and streets were filled with cars with entire families supporting Erdogan. The drivers of the cars honked horns, many people waved flags from the cars. In many places in the capital, there were miles of traffic jams.

A huge number of supporters of the president also celebrated on the streets of Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the devastating earthquakes of February 6.

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