Turkey's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) was on course to win Sunday's general election but with a share of the vote well down on the almost 50 percent it recorded in the 2011 polls.
The pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) will surpass the 10 percent barrier needed to send MPs to parliament, meaning the AKP will need to form a coalition for the first time since it first came to power in 2002, according to initial results, based on a 75 percent vote count.
The AKP secured 43 percent of the vote, followed by the Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), with the HDP fourth on 11 percent, according to the results broadcast on television channels.
The CHP is set to reap 24 percent of the vote and the MHP 17 percent, the results indicated.
This will equate to 267 seats in the 550-seat parliament for the AKP, 124 for the CHP, 85 for the MHP and 74 for the HDP, the CNN-Turk and NTV channels said in a projection.
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7/6/15
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Turkey ruling AKP 'loses majority'...
ReplyDeleteTurkey's governing AK party appears on course to lose its parliamentary majority, early projections suggest.
They also suggest the pro-Kurdish HDP is set to cross the 10% threshold, securing seats for the first time.
With 90% of the vote counted, the AKP had 42% of the vote, according to Turkish TV stations.
If confirmed, the result would end the AKP's 13-year single-party rule, and upset President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to boost his office's powers.....BBC