Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the second round of elections this Sunday, May 28, with 99 % of the votes counted.

With this victory, Erdogan begins a new term. It has been in charge of Turkey for 20 years, completed in the month of March; in a first stage as prime minister and since 2014 as president.

The president, at the head of the Justice and Development Party (AKP, Islamoconservative), has secured a new five-year term in power, with 52.1 % of the votes. His rival, the Social Democrat Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, reached 47.9% of the vote.

The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Hungary, Serbia, Libya and Iran are among the first to officially congratulate Erdogan on this victory.

Despite a gray climate and some changes denounced by the opposition, such as voters who were not registered, the electoral process was favorable for the current president of the nation, according to Ahmet Yener, president of the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey.

M.Pino

With information from dpa, national and international media

(Reference image source: Christoph Reichwein / dpa)

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey, stated in a meeting with university students that his country has no intention of protecting any type of private digital asset in his territory.

Erdogan was emphatic and expressed: “We have absolutely no intention of embracing cryptocurrencies (…) On the contrary, we have a separate war, a separate fight against them. We would never support them. Because we will advance with our own currency, which has its own identity.”

A few months ago the Central Bank of Turkey decided to prohibit direct and indirect payments with the different existing cryptocurrencies in its country, because they do not have laws that regulate these activities by the financial institution, nor do they have the availability of “supervisory mechanisms for cryptocurrencies.”

The country’s financial institution considers that digital currencies “may cause non-recoverable losses for the parties involved in a transaction due to the lack of regulations.”

Likewise, the Central Bank also notified the “creation of the Digital Turkish Lira Cooperation Platform” in order to “explore the possible contributions of the virtual circulation of the Turkish lira as a complement to the existing payment infrastructure.”

In this context, the country is working in different regulatory scenarios to prevent citizens from exposing themselves to all the implications that may arise from a transaction with digital currencies.

M. Rodríguez

Fuente: dineroenimagen

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