On June 8, Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is convening a meeting of the cabinet of ministers. The meeting is expected to discuss the results of the June 7 parliamentary election in Turkey.
On Sunday, June 7, Turkey held parliamentary election, which involved 20 political parties. Some 53,765,231 people cast their votes in the election.
The voting results in Turkey’s June 7 parliamentary election are as follows: the ruling Justice and Development Party garnered 40.9 percent of the vote, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) – 25 percent, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) – 16.3 percent, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) – 13.1 percent.
Other political parties as a whole gathered 4.7 percent of the vote.
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