{"id":8827,"date":"2021-03-25T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T03:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2021-03-25T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T03:13:48","slug":"turkeys-president-re-elected-ruling-party-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=8827","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s president re-elected ruling party head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, March 25 &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected Wednesday as chair of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at its general congress, reported Xinhua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are determined to fulfill our promises to our nation, especially a new and civil constitution,&#8221; Erdogan made the remarks when addressing the delegates of the party after the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to party officials, Erdogan got 1,428 valid votes out of 1,431 ballots, and there were three spoiled ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png\" alt=\"president\" class=\"wp-image-8828\" width=\"538\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png 583w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18-160x100.png 160w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18-350x219.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Erdogan has made a major change in the party administration during the congress and included former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim into the party&#8217;s decision-making and administration board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cabinet reshuffle is also expected to be made by Erdogan soon. The AKP&#8217;s Deputy Chair Mahir Unal on Tuesday told the press that the president plans to make such an arrangement in the upcoming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to a query on the anticipation of the reshuffle, Unal said there will be a movement throughout the system and Erdogan will make new arrangements for 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1945267\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, March 25 &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected Wednesday as chair of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18-300x187.png",300,187,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-11.11.18.png",583,364,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}