With the results of the Turkish election in, we’d like to hear what hopes you have for Turkey going forward
For the first time since its creation, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AKP has failed to secure an overall majority. Here’s the background to this historic result
Since 2002, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK party had always won a majority in every Turkish election. National elections, local votes, and in the more recent presidential one, Erdoğan always won comfortably. This year, however, the party lost its parliamentary majority and saw its share of the vote fall.
Kurds march in Berlin against violence in Turkey’s election campaign on June 6, 2015. Photo by Thorsten Strasas. Demotix ID: 7791816.
President’s behaviour during campaign was exceptionally boorish and he appears to have been punished for it at the polls
The mould-breaking outcome of Turkey’s general election on Sunday will be viewed as a personal rebuff for the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and as a historic political breakthrough for the country’s 18 million-strong Kurdish minority, which will be represented by a political party in parliament for the first time.
In order to gain popularity among Turkey’s Kurdish conservative Muslims, HDP is promoting a “Pro-Kurdish democratic Islam” rather than secularism.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development party wins 41% of vote – meaning it will need a coalition partner to form a government
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has suffered his biggest setback in 13 years of amassing power as voters denied his ruling party a parliamentary majority for the first time since 2002 and gave the country’s large Kurdish minority its biggest voice ever in national politics.
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