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"I accept the election results, [despite some votes being stolen, the overall result was not in question]."
"We will live the consequences of having one-man rule in the legislature, judiciary and government. I will keep up the fight as someone who got the approval of one person among every three in Turkey."
“If you have lost, you have lost. To say, I don’t accept this result, so let’s take to the streets is not democracy."

"A single person is becoming the head of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary and this is a concern for a threat to the survival of the country. Turkey has departed from democratic values and Turkey has broken its ties with the parliamentary system which it had."

"We're now in a one-man rule -- there's no mechanism to prevent arbitrary rule. We continue to have great concerns about this situation."
Muharrem Ince, social democratic (Republican People's Party) presidential runner-up

"The winners of the June 24 elections are Turkey, the Turkish nation, sufferers of our region and all oppressed (people) in the world."
"Turkey has decided to take the side of growth, development, investment, enrichment and a reputable, honorable and influential country in all areas in the world."
"I would like to congratulate our nation once again. This has been another test of democracy and we have passed this test successfully."
Turkey's President-for-Life Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey's President and leader of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters

"The issues of Jerusalem and Gaza, while conducive to Erdogan’s campaign were not a critical factor. The opposition was in concurrence with his position on these issues and even challenged him to adopt a tougher approach to Israel."
"The question is broader in my view — what approach will Erdogan adopt after the elections both inward and outward — combative or more conciliatory?"
"From the little we can see already, it seems he will remain a tough critic of the West and, partially as a byproduct, also of Israel."
Gallia Lindenstrauss, research fellow, Tel Aviv University-affiliated Institute for National Security Studies (INS)

After sixteen years in power, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP: strange how dictators love the words 'justice' and 'development') are firmly ensconced to continue to lead Turkey in the direction and in the manner that continues the stranglehold they manipulated themselves into with their first majority when Erdogan was Prime Minister and followed the example of Russia's Vladimir Putin to exchange positions and finally alter their constitutions to enable them to become presidents-for-life, squashing opposition and streamrolling the political process.

Their goals realized, they reign unopposed, but not without resorting when they see the need of it, to coersion, violence and corruption. All of which provides them with their aspirational goals fulfilled. That both had sumptuous, costly palaces built to reflect their exalted status as the heart and soul and tyrant of their countries speaks as well to the prideful conceit of their self-image. Even so, Erdogan left nothing to chance with his eye on achieving the majority he wanted to secure his future. His alliance with the Nationalist Action Party MHP was his insurance against failure.

So when the vote was declared in his favour with a 52-percent majority that was only attained with the MHP's winning seats included. Erdogan had wanted 55 percent for a more unequivocal majority, not the 42 percent the AKP got, but he will settle for what he has. The far-right party with which his own is now twinned has an agenda not completely unlike his own. Neither can be too pleased that the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party managed close to 12 percent of the vote, enough to seat them in Parliament, a goal higher than any other party was required to gain.

It is telling that congratulations to Erdogan did not pour forth effusively from the European Union members, who remain quietly glum over Erdogan's success, speaking little of the alleged corruption that brought him his win. The matter of European Union membership for Turkey has been an issue that has chafed relations between Turkey and the EU for decades, the EU waiting for Turkey's human rights record to reach the point of acceptance. And now, of a surety, it never will.

Erdogan's uncontested, expanded powers as newly re-elected president with a majority will see Turkey's transition from a parliamentary system of government to what Erdogan has long pined for; a presidential system giving him vastly expanded powers with the authority to impose states of emergency and to issue decrees, all of which Erdogan has promised voters would result in prosperity and stability for the country.

Turks themselves certainly felt strongly enough about the issues -- which sees the people strongly in opposite camps -- to bring out a hefty percentage of potential voters.