Thousands of Muslims who came to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount square on Sunday evening celebrated Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in the Turkish presidential election.
In a video from the scene, the crowd can be seen chanting: “O Jews&hellipMuhammad’s army will return to fight against you.”
Hamas also congratulated Erdogan on his victory and said that “this historic victory will be a new starting point for strengthening relations on the Arab and Islamic level and for supporting the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people’s right to freedom, self-determination and the establishment of a Palestinian state on its national land.”

Erdogan earlier on Sunday claimed victory over his reformist opponent, economist Kemal Kılı&ccedildaroğlu, after the polls closed across Turkey.
The Turkish Electoral Body announced that with 75.4% of the vote counted, Erdogan leads Kılı&ccedildaroğlu 53.4% to 46.6%.
Erdogan bested Kılı&ccedildaroğlu, the candidate for the secularist Republican People’s Party (CHP), in the first vote on May 14, but narrowly failed to clear the 50% threshold needed to win outright, sending the country into a second round of voting.