# Erdoğan wins the first executive-presidency election

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 24 June 2018 [Erdoğan](/people/recep-tayyip-erdogan) won the first presidential election under the new executive system, with a snap vote he had called with early parliamentary elections.

## Context

The snap combined presidential and parliamentary polls. Emergency rule had ended weeks earlier. YSK certified; he took the new-style oath. OSCE noted advantages of incumbency.

The 2017 referendum is a different date. The 2023 runoff is a different date.

The president of Turkey is head of state and, since the 2017 executive-presidency reform, head of government. The Grand [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) writes statutes; the Official Gazette records decrees; courts, governors, and the armed forces implement. He does not write a European Council conclusion, an IMF programme, or a UN General Assembly resolution.

## Evidence and sources

Supreme Election Council of Turkey carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): the first election under the new system completes the 2017 package.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 24 June 2018 certified presidential victory under the new executive system, independently reported.

Not established: that the snap vote was illegal, or a unique later inflation coefficient from the oath.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

YSK administered. The 2017 package had already changed the office.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Erdoğan wins the first executive-presidency election, not a later speech about Erdoğan wins the first executive-presidency election.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Erdoğan wins the first executive-presidency election on 2018-06-24 is not a licence to treat every later Supreme Election Council of Turkey communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Erdoğan wins the first executive-presidency election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He called the snap vote and won the certified count. YSK administered. The 2017 package had already changed the office. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Grand National Assembly, the Official Gazette, governors, courts, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A detention is not a conviction.

## People

- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: https://factrail.ai/people/recep-tayyip-erdogan

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.ysk.gov.tr/doc/karar/dosya/77779/2018-952.pdf
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-election-idUSKBN1JK0P4

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tr-2018-presidential-election