Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the local elections scheduled for March 31 would be the last elections in which he will participate. The news was announced on Friday by the state news agency Anadolu.
Erdogan, Turkey's most successful modern politician, has led the country for more than two decades. A winner of more than a dozen elections since 2002, Erdogan was re-elected to a five-year term in hotly contested elections in May 2023.
"This is a final for me, according to the mandate given by the law, this is my last choice," Erdogan said. "The result that will come out will be the transfer of an inheritance to my brothers and sisters who will come after me", he was quoted as saying by Anadolu.