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Mavi Boncuk |

“Today, I return to the party that I founded: my home, my passion, my love,” he said.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has rejoined the ruling party that he co-founded, after a tight referendum victory that granted him new powers when Turkish voters approved a raft of constitutional amendments

that will transform the country from a parliamentary democracy into a presidential republic.

Erdoğan signed his membership form at a ceremony in the Justice and Development party (AKP) headquarters in the capital, Ankara, and is expected to be elected chair at an extraordinary congress later this month.