The Turkish president's power seemed unassailable as thousands celebrated across the country on Sunday.
"We are so happy," one of his fans told us outside his Istanbul home."Our economy is good….OK, it's been bad for two years but we trust him and he will do his best."
This was the closest President Erdogan had come to being unseated was how the opposition and most Western media framed the outcome of the first round. Mr Erdogan has spent his two decades at the helm consolidating his power - cracking down on dissent, intimidating and jailing opposition politicians and journalists and ensuring the Turkish media is mostly state-controlled and complaint.International observers in the country who were monitoring the initial vote criticised Mr Erdogan's use of state resources and his control of the media to unduly influence the electorate.
At one rally he told his supporters:"We are competing against those trying to disrupt the century of Turkey.
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