Turkey: "An End to an Era of Oppression"

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Gatestone Institute:

"We, through democratic means, have brought an end to an era of oppression." — Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition, Republican People's Party (CHP).

 

Erdogan is now the lonely sultan in his $615 million, 1150-room presidential palace. For the first time since 2002, the opposition has more seats in the parliament than the AKP.

 

For the first time since his Islamist party won its first election victory in 2002, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was nowhere to be seen on the night of June 7. He did not make a victory speech. He did not, in fact, make any speech.

 

Not only failing to win the two-thirds majority they desired to change the constitution, the AKP lost its parliamentary majority and the ability to form a single-party government. It won 40.8% of the national vote and 258 seats, 19 short of the simple majority requirement of 276. Erdogan is now the lonely sultan at his $615 million, 1150-room presidential palace. For the first time since 2002, the opposition has more seats in parliament than the AKP: 292 seats to 258.

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Emre Peker @wsjemre

 

#Turkey is almost done tallying all the ballots, here's how it's shaking out:

AKP 40.8%

CHP 25%

MHP 16.3%

HDP 13.1%

 

 

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