Turkey’s President Erdogan wins re-election, but offers no clear answers to policy challenges

LONDON – With Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comfortably

winning another five-year term

in a heavily contested run-off election, attention is now shifting to how the veteran leader plans to manage one of Europe’s biggest, yet most troubled, economies.

Mr Erdogan, 69, secured 52 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s final round of the presidential ballot, while Mr Kemal Kilicdaroglu, his chief opponent, trailed at 48 per cent.