Erdogan of Turkey – level 3

02-07-2018 07:00

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power since 2003, will now begin a new five-year term after winning Turkey’s presidential election.

At a hugerally, Erdogan said that the winner was democracy and the Turkish population, but the country has just completed a transition from a parliamentary to a presidential government system.

After people narrowly voted in a referendum last year, the country’s president assumed sweeping new powers. According to the president’s main rival, Muharrem Ince, Turkey has become a ‘one-man regime’.

Difficult words: huge (very big), rally (a political meeting with a lot of people), assume (begin to have), sweeping (absolute).

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