Istanbul, Nov 6, (dpa/GNA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump as the Republican candidate looked poised to return to the White House.
His “friend” Donald Trump won the presidential election after a “great struggle,” Erdogan wrote on social media platform X.
With Trump’s election, a “new era” begins, wrote Erdogan.
The Turkish leader said he hopes Trump will “strengthen relations” between Turkey and the US, as well as “end regional and global crises and wars.”
The conservative broadcaster Fox News had already declared Republican candidate Trump the overall winner against Democrat Kamala Harris, but other media networks and US news agency AP have not done so. Trump declared himself the winner in a speech in Florida.
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