Erdogan congratulates Trump on winning US presidency

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated Republican candidate Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election.

This came in a post on his X account on Wednesday.

Erdogan said: “I congratulate my friend Donald Trump who won the presidential election and was elected again as President of the United States of America.”

He added: “I hope that in this new period (Trump’s term) Turkish-American relations will be strengthened and that regional and global crises and wars, especially the Palestinian issue and the Russian-Ukrainian war, will end, and I believe that more efforts will be made for a more just world.”

Erdogan expressed his hope that the election results would be good for the friendly and allied American people and humanity as a whole.

Earlier on Wednesday, Republican candidate Donald Trump announced that he had achieved a “historic victory” in the US presidential election.