Victory propels Erdoğan into elite club of strongman leaders

Erdoğan had no kind words for his defeated challengers, offering no olive branch to the roughly 47% of the electorate that did not back him.Outright victory in the first round of Turkey’s presidential elections has propelled Recep Tayyip Erdoğan into the foremost rank of global strongman leaders in the style of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.