Erdogan takes oath of office, starting his third presidential term
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken the oath of office to become president of Turkey for a third term that followed three stints as prime minister.
Erdogan, 69, won a new five-year term in a runoff presidential race last week to govern the country that straddles Europe and Asia.
Erdogan took the oath of office at the parliament building in Ankara on Saturday, extending his administration into a third decade.
His new Cabinet is to be announced later in the day.
High-level officials from 78 countries have been invited to the country to take part in the inauguration ceremony.
Some of the guests at the event include Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
The Turkish president will host guests at a dinner at the Cankaya Palace, the former home of Turkish presidents, after the ceremony. He is expected to announce his Cabinet after dinner.
Erdogan won the presidential race in a runoff by securing 52.18 percent of the votes against the opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu who received 47.82 percent, according to official results published by Turkey’s election board.
"Based on provisional results, it has been determined that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been elected president," Supreme Election Council Chairman Ahmet Yener was quoted as saying by Anadolu state news agency on Sunday.
Yener had said in an earlier statement that the election was not marred by any voting irregularities and fraud.
Erdogan defied opinion polls and came out comfortably ahead with an almost five-point lead over his 74-year-old rival on May 14, but he fell just short of the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff.
Kilicdaroglu, a former civil servant who is the candidate of a six-party opposition alliance, leads the Republican People’s Party (CHP) created by Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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