People wait at a bus stop in front of a destroyed building during the presidential runoff vote in the quake-hit city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on May 28, 2023. Turkey votes on May 28, 2023 in a historic runoff that Turkish President enters as the firm favourite to extend two decades of his Islamic-rooted rule to 2028. (Photo by Can Erok/AFP Photo)





23 year-old Ozge Coban and 24 year-old Ismail Coban couple arrives at a polling station, with a wedding dress and a groom before their wedding ceremony, to cast their votes during the second round of Turkiye's presidential elections in Duzce, Turkiye on May 28, 2023. Millions of voters started heading to the polls in Turkiye as the country's second round of presidential elections began Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT). (Photo by Omer Urer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People cast their votes at a polling station in a school on May 28, 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey. President Erdogan was forced into a runoff election when neither he nor his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP), received more than 50 percent of the vote on the May 14 election. The runoff vote will be held this Sunday, May 28. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)





Security forces stand guard as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters following early exit poll results for the second round of the presidential election in Istanbul, Turkey on May 28, 2023. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)





Turkish President and leader of the People Alliance party, presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leaves after he casted his ballot at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May 28, 2023. Erdogan, who has been at Turkey's helm for 20 years, is favored to win a new five-year term in the second-round runoff after coming just short of an outright victory in the first round on May 14. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A worshipper carries a child, while they visit the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was declared the winner in the second round of the presidential election, in Istanbul, Turkey on May 29, 2023. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





Electoral officials empty a ballot box to count votes on the day of the second round of the presidential election in Diyarbakir on May 28, 2023. Turkish polling stations closed, in a historic runoff election that could extend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade rule until 2028. Preliminary results were expected later on May 28, in one of Turkey's most important elections in its 100-year history as a post-Ottoman state. (Photo by Ilyas Akengin/AFP Photo)





Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan react following early exit poll results for the second round of the presidential election outside the provincial headquarters of AK Party (AKP) in Istanbul, Turkey on May 28, 2023. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May 28, 2023. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade as the country reels from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities. (Photo by Valeria Ferraro/AP Photo)





A person steps on an election poster of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition alliance, on the day of the second round of the presidential election, in Ankara, Turkey on May 28, 2023. (Photo by Cagla Gurdogan/Reuters)





Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan react on the day of the second round of the presidential election, in Ankara, Turkey on May 28, 2023. (Photo by Cagla Gurdogan/Reuters)





People walk while draped in banners featuring Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, after he was declared the winner in the second round of the presidential election, in Istanbul, Turkey on May 29, 2023. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





Mehter band of Uskudar Hakki Demir Imam Hatip High School perfom in front of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque to mark the 570th anniversary of the conquest of the city by Ottoman Turks, in Istanbul, Turkey on May 29, 2023. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)





The full moon appears above Galata Tower and Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, Turkiye on June 01, 2023. (Photo by Isa Terli/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Aleppo goat breastfeeds the baby wild goat, which was found exhausted by soldiers on the border line in Hakkari, and taken under protection at Van Yuzuncu Yil University Wild Animals Protection and Rehabilitation Center in Van, Turkiye on June 01, 2023. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





An interior view of the military aircraft to be used for the transition of 65th Mechanised Infantry Brigade Command from Corlu military airport to Kosovo upon the request of the NATO Joint Force Command in Tekirdag, Turkiye on June 7, 2023. Turkish commando battalion is commisioned as the reserve force due to the events happened in Kosovo. (Photo by Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People buy 'simit', Turkey's ubiquitous pretzel-like snacks, at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection last month despite a battered economy and a cost-of-living crisis that experts say are exacerbated by his unconventional economic policies. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A grizzly bear and her cubs seeking food in a landfill in in Kars, Turkiye on June 07, 2023. (Photo by Huseyin Demirci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Turkish World Record Holder in freediving Sahika Ercumen dives to raise awareness about pollution in sea waters in Kas district of Antalya, Turkiye on June 07, 2023. Every year 400 tons of one time use plastic are made globally and in Turkiye 91 percent of the plastics are not recycled. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Flamingos and baby flamingos are seen together in Izmir, Turkiye on June 11, 2023. The artificial hatching island in the Gediz Delta, also known as the “Izmir Bird Sanctuary”, is bustling with baby flamingos. The Gediz Delta, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage candidate, is home to hundreds of species, including endangered species, with its rich living resources. The region is home to many water birds every season. In the Gediz Delta thousands of flaminglets are born every year on the 6.5 acre artificial hatching island created in 2012 due to the erosion of the existing natural hatching island by wave erosion. (Photo by Mehmet Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)