“Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has won the country’s first direct presidential election in the first round after taking more that 50 percent of the vote, according to Turkey’s election board.

Sunday’s victory will extend Erdogan’s more than 10-year rule over the country for another five years.

“The provisional results show that Erdogan has the majority of the valid votes,” High Election Board chairman Sadi Guven told a news conference in the capital Ankara.

“We have received more than 99 percent [of the votes]. Tomorrow we will announce the provisional results.””* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Umut Uras / Al Jazeera:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/erdogan-wins-turkey-presidential-election-2014810172347586150.html