Erdogan’s allies offer congratulations

We’ve had a few more world leaders congratulate Erdogan now, and unsurprisingly, like the Qatari emir, they are his close allies.

Hungary’s Victor Orban, one of the few people who sees things Erdogan’s way in Nato, has called the Turkish president’s win “unquestionable”.

The office of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said: "We wish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued success during his new tenure!" Turkey has had an active role in Somalia in recent years when many other countries kept it at arm’s length.

From Tripoli, Abdelhamid Dbeiba, prime minister of one of Libya’s two competing governments, has also offered his congratulations.

Turkey is a major player in western Libya, intervening in a 2019-2022 civil war to prop up the UN-recognised administration that preceded Dbeiba.

In his victory speech, Erdogan said Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (who Erdogan has also helped fight a war) gave him a call. We’re yet to see those congratulations from Baku in tweet form, however.