Erdogan urges world to respect poll win in Turkey
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday hailed a big victory for his ruling party in the country鈥檚 parliamentary election and demanded the world respect the result.
The ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, secured a stunning victory in Sunday鈥檚 snap parliamentary election, sweeping back into single-party rule only five months after losing it.
With all of the ballots counted early yesterday, the preliminary results showed that the party won more than 49 percent of the votes. It was projected to get 317 seats in the 550-member parliament, restoring the party鈥檚 single-party majority that it had lost in a June election.
The main stock index rallied 5.5 percent yesterday as investors cheered the result, which ends a period of political uncertainty.
鈥淭he whole world must show respect. So far I haven鈥檛 seen such a maturity from the world,鈥 Erdogan said after attending prayers at a mosque and visiting his parents鈥 graves.
It was an apparent reference to Western media鈥檚 often critical coverage of AKP鈥檚 policies in the past few years, including the ruling party鈥檚 backsliding on democratic reforms and moves to muzzle critical voices.
Erdogan had called for a new election after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu failed to form a coalition with any of the three opposition parties in parliament after the June vote.
Sunday鈥檚 election was held amid renewed violence and Erdogan and Davutoglu argued that only a single-party majority could restore stability.
Fighting between Turkey鈥檚 security forces and Kurdish rebels has left hundreds of people dead and shattered an already-fragile peace process. Two recent massive suicide bombings at pro-Kurdish gatherings that killed some 130 people, apparently carried out by an Islamic State group cell, also raised tensions.
鈥淭he will of the people ... opted for stability,鈥 Erdogan said. 鈥淭he developments in that short span of time made the people say: 鈥榯here is no way out other than stability鈥.鈥
Most analysts had expected AKP to fall short again, but the preliminary results suggest it picked up millions of votes at the expense of a nationalist party and a pro-Kurdish party.
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