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S/Africa’s Ramaphosa congratulates Erdogan for Turkey poll win

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BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 02: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media following talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery on November 2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Earlier in the day the two leaders attended a celebration to mark 50 years of Turkish immigration to Germany. On October 30, 1961 Turkey and what was then West Germany signed an agreement that paved the way for the migration of Turkish "guest workers" to Germany. Germany in the early 1960s, which in many ways was still recovering from the devastation of World War II, required foreign labour to fill its industrial workforce, and the influx of immigrants from Turkey, Italy, Greece and other south European countries made Germany’s "economic miracle" possible. Today large numbers of Germans with Turkish roots are an integral part of German society, though integration and assimilation remain a contentious issue, especially for more recent Turkish immigrants. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday congratulated his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan following his re-election for a record third term.

Erdogan secured another five years in power after beating main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in a tightly contested presidential election run-off held on Sunday.

Kilicdaroglu has, however, denounced “the most unfair election in recent years”.

The opposition leader, who did not explicitly concede defeat, accused Eedogan’s party of mobilising the state apparatus against him.

Erdogan garnered 52.14 percent of the vote against Kilicdaroglu’s 47.86 percent, according to the country’s electoral body.

“President Ramaphosa said South Africa looks forward to working with Türkiye under President Erdoğan to consolidate existing strong relations at the bilateral and multilateral levels,” the South African presidency said in a statement.

Formal relations between South Africa and Turkey were established in 1991.

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