Erdogan’s victory starts debate on next Turkish PM

Turkey’s governing party was debating who should be the country’s next prime minister after incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the country’s first popularly elected president in a historic vote.

A three-term prime minister who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade, Erdogan has been a divisive figure.

Revered by many as a champion of the people who has steered Turkey to years of economic prosperity, he has been criticised by others for an increasingly autocratic style of governance and for allegedly trying to impose his religious and conservative mores on a nation built on secularism.