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Balkan leaders were high on the foreign guest list as Turkey's strongman for 16 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was sworn in as President once again at the country's parliament in Ankara on Monday.

Turkey's election authority has confirmed Turkey's strongman for 16 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won Sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections, with 99.7 per cent of the votes counted.

Democracy was the winner of Sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections, Erdogan said on June 25.

Turkish pro-government daily newspaper Yeni Safak reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, will organise a rally in Sarajevo on May 20.

The event is part of Erdogan's re-election campaign; he is running for the presidential office again as the country holds early general and presidential elections on June 24.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed to receive "the highest vote," with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) alliance, stating that "the AKP is a party that works as if there will be an election at any time.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will allegedly appoint names that are not close to the ruling Development and Justice Party (AKP) as his vice-presidents for the 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections in a move to embrace a bigger fraction of the society.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry appointed new ambassadors to Croatia and Sudan on Aug. 30, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The appointments were issued in the Official Gazette on Aug. 31.  

Mustafa Babür Hızlan, who was on duty as the bilateral relations general manager of the Foreign Ministry, was appointed as ambassador to Croatia's Zagreb.

Turkey is engaging in “hostage diplomacy” by holding several US and German citizens on seemingly trumped-up terrorism charges as bargaining chips in order to force the US and Germany to extradite Turkish nationals, according to current and former security officials in Europe and the US.

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Aug. 11 accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of launching a "smear campaign" against him in an attempt to obscure an AKP member's controversial remarks on "founding a new state." 

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are often accused of having a secret agenda. Some people claim that the ruling political clan and the tall, bald, bold, ever-angry tenant of the extravagant palace wanted to transform the country into something different but have so far successfully kept that agenda secret.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 7 urged his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members to put in greater effort for the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2019, while heralding a broad change within the party organization.