Turkey: AKP's landslide election victory


	Turkey: AKP's landslide election victory

invictus

7-22-2007 1:31 PM

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turkey, elections, akp, tayyip erdogan, politics

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Ruling AKP of Tayyip Erdogan wins around 48 percent of total votes, while main opposition party CHP could only get 20. Extreme-right nationalist MHP's votes are around 14.5. AKP is expected to get 345 seats at the 550-members parliament. CHP gets 107 and MHP 71. There is also more than 20 seats won by independent Kurdish & left wing candidates

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7-22-2007 3:38 PM

invictus

Update: AKP wins the majority with 46.9 percent of votes which is a landslide victory.

Another important thing: Leader of socialist ODP, Ufuk Uras is elected from Istanbul as an independent MP, along with 23 independent MP's from southeast Turkey.

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