ELECTION TRIUMPH
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan exits a voting booth at a polling station in Istanbul as Turkey voted November 1 in one of its most crucial elections in years. The poll is the second in just five months, called after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was stripped of its parliamentary majority in June for the first time in 13 years and then failed to forge a coalition government. AFP PHOTO
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan exits a voting booth at a polling station in Istanbul as Turkey voted November 1 in one of its most crucial elections in years. The poll is the second in just five months, called after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was stripped of its parliamentary majority in June for the first time in 13 years and then failed to forge a coalition government. AFP PHOTO
ANKARA: Turks woke Monday to a country once again under single-party rule, after the Justice and Development Party regained its parliamentary majority in a surprise election sweep that strengthens the hand of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.