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Erdogan’s Governing Party in Turkey Loses Parliamentary Majority
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The AKP party loses its parliamentary majority in the 2015 general election. It wins 41% of the vote compared to 50% in the 2011 general election. This gives it 258 seats in the Turkish parliament, compared to 327 seats in the last election. Kurds, liberals and secular Turks were part of the antigovernment protests in 2013. This part of the electorate voted for the Kurdish People's Democratic Party, which won 13% of the vote. The traditional secular party in Turkey won 25% of the vote, giving the opposition to the AKP a combined 38% of the vote. Turnout was 86% for the election. The Kurdish People's Democratic Party is led by a 42 year old human rights lawyer, who told reporters: "As of this hour, the debate about the presidency, the debate about dictatorship, is over. Turkey narrowly averted a disaster."
Turkey's June 2015 parliamentary elections with the AKP losing its majority
05/29/2015
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Prospect of Instability Looms as Turkish Voters Deny Erdogan a Majority
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Turkey's 2014 presidential election
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Turkey Election: Erdogan Wins Landmark Victory
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Turkey's local elections in Istanbul and Ankara in March 2014- the AKP and a deeply divided Turkey
04/01/2014
The election of AKP party members in Istanbul and Ankara mayoral elections, with the AKP winning over half the vote and the CHP and other parties splitting the remaining votes. As the WSJ editorial on the same day points out the economic boom on which the AKP contested the election is already coming to an end with the end to surging credit. By winning just over half the vote in an election with suppression of freely expressed media opinion, the AKP has left Turkey as badly divided as before. The rise of the AKP based on Turkey's economic performance for the last decade, may lead the AKP to lose sight of the fact that this was for a significant part an improvement that has taken place across all emerging markets from Brazil to India, and which is gradually unwinding. A deeply divided nation will find it difficult to attract the kind of foreign investment Turkey needs to move forward, especially considering that credit expansion and foreign investment has financed Turkey's boom, not its manufacturing competitiveness.
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The Turkish Ballot-Box Revolt That Wasn't
Wall Street Journal 04/01/2014
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Gains Ground in Turkish Elections
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Markets Diverging in Emerging World
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Erdogan’s Governing Party in Turkey Loses Parliamentary Majority
New York Times 06/07/2015
Prospect of Instability Looms as Turkish Voters Deny Erdogan a Majority
New York Times 06/08/2015
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