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07 Jun 2015, 4:09 pm

Today the votes are counted.

The AKP, has been soundly defeated and stripped of it's majority, only winning 40.9% of the vote in the Proportionate Representation system (They don't use districts like the U.S. and UK)

AKP won a mere 258 seats out of 550 seats in parliament, depriving it of the 276 majority needed to rule.

CHP (Ataturk's party) came in second with 26%
MHP is third with 16%+
The newly created HDP (Kurdish party) won 13% of the votes.

10% is needed to be seated in parliament.
Tomorrow we will know how the remaining 291 seat are divided up between the opposition.

President Erdogan, who is the leader of the AKP, will no longer be able to change Turkey into a full Islamic counterpart to the U.S.
His proposed restructuring of the Turkish constitution is halted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/world ... .html?_r=0
http://www.wsj.com/articles/partial-tur ... 1433696787


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09 Jun 2015, 4:58 pm

I was reading about this last night. Very fascinating. Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian behaviour has been making headlines around the world, including here in Australia. So I'll admit to being glad to see his political ambitions, including his proposed constitutional amendments, take a massive hit.

But I wouldn't say that the left has taken Turkey, per se. At least not yet. Erdogan's party will still have the largest representation in the Turkish parliament, but this time they'll need to find a coalition partner to form government. And on paper, the nationalist and conservative MHP would seem to be a likely coalition partner, although the two parties have disagreements that could prove problematic for Erdogan. And a coalition with either the more secular CHP or the pro-Kurdish HDP seems less likely.

All in all, the AKP has 45 days to find a coalition partner, or Turkey could be heading for another election this year. Time will tell.


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10 Jun 2015, 2:44 pm

The pro-Kurdish party is interesting, they're about as far left and socially progressive as any party in the middle east. I'm not sure Erdogan's plans are defeated tho, more likely delayed. Autocrats do not give up easily.



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10 Jun 2015, 4:14 pm

Murihiku wrote:
I was reading about this last night. Very fascinating. Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian behaviour has been making headlines around the world, including here in Australia. So I'll admit to being glad to see his political ambitions, including his proposed constitutional amendments, take a massive hit.

But I wouldn't say that the left has taken Turkey, per se. At least not yet. Erdogan's party will still have the largest representation in the Turkish parliament, but this time they'll need to find a coalition partner to form government. And on paper, the nationalist and conservative MHP would seem to be a likely coalition partner, although the two parties have disagreements that could prove problematic for Erdogan. And a coalition with either the more secular CHP or the pro-Kurdish HDP seems less likely.

All in all, the AKP has 45 days to find a coalition partner, or Turkey could be heading for another election this year. Time will tell.

The other parties are currently refusing to work with the AKP.
They may form a coalition with each other instead of forcing an early election.

Plus if one of the other parties does team up with the AKP, it will cost them at the next election, due to the AKP being hated that badly my the center and the left.


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