
“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.