A few minutes after Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s message to young peopleThe Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his own Twitter post about the election result.

As SKAI correspondent Manolis Kostidis reports from Istanbulthe president and big winner of the first round, after upsetting the odds, is calling the world for a bigger triumph.

Among other things, Erdogan mentions in his post:

May 28 will be the beginning of Turkey’s century. We as the People’s Alliance gave the first test of the most critical elections of our country, with great gratitude.

We fought hard without giving in to challenges, ignoring pressures, without being intimidated and without giving up in the face of difficulties.

I thank each and every one of you for your help, your efforts and your sacrifices.

I praise God for giving me such companions.

Now is the time to seal the victory of May 14 with an even greater triumph.”