Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the majority of votes in Sunday's election, the country's election council said, granting him another five-year term with new executive powers endorsed in a referendum last year.The victory will extend the 15-year rule of the 64-year-old president, who has tightened his grip on Turkey's legislature and judiciary in a transformation from a parliamentary system to a presidential one based on a constitutional referendum in April 2017.Amid concern over increasingly autocratic rule under Erdogan, the result could deepen the rift between Turkey's Western…READ FULL ARTICLE
