Turkey's 17th general election was held on 12 June 2011 to elect 550 new members of Grand National Assembly

Grand National Assembly of Turkey

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey , usually referred to simply as the Meclis , is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Constitution. It was founded in Ankara on 23 April 1920 in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence...

. They were Turkey's first non-early elections in 34 years.

Background

Emboldened by the 2010 constitutional referendum

Turkish constitutional referendum, 2010

A constitutional referendum on a number of changes to the constitution was held in Turkey on 12 September 2010. The results showed the majority supported the constitutional amendments, with 58% in favour and 42% against. The changes were aimed at bringing the constitution into compliance with...

, AK party leaders said they would create a new constitution after the 2011 elections.

Date

On March 3, 2011, Parliament

Grand National Assembly of Turkey

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey , usually referred to simply as the Meclis , is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Constitution. It was founded in Ankara on 23 April 1920 in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence...

 approved a ruling party proposal to set June 12 as the date for the general elections. The proposal was submitted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on February 21 and was approved unanimously in the Parliament's General Assembly. In its proposal, the AK Party pointed to the appropriateness of June 12 as the election date considering the June dates for the placement test for high schools (SBS) and the university entrance exam

ÖSS

Student Selection and Placement System or Higher Education Examination-Undergraduate Placement Examination , [formerly Student Selection Examination, ], is a standardized test for the admission to higher education in Turkey administered by ÖSYM. Within the Turkish education system, the only way to...

 (ÖSS). Seeking high voter turnout, the heat during the summer was also considered during the choice of date.

Novelties

In accordance with a law approved by Parliament last year that made changes to Turkey's election laws, Turkish voters encountered some new rules and reforms during the general election of 2011. The changes sought to bring Turkish election campaign regulations up to European standards.

• The age for parliamentary eligibility
  Suffrage
  Suffrage, political franchise, or simply the franchise, distinct from mere voting rights, is the civil right to vote gained through the democratic process...
  
   was reduced from 30 to 25.
• Wooden ballot boxes were replaced by new ballot boxes made out of hard plastic that were transparent, unbreakable and resistant to heat.
• Voting booths were upgraded to a stronger, safer, and more portable model.
• Voting envelopes were made larger and had different colors for each matter that was being voted upon.
• Campaigning in languages other than Turkish
  Turkish language
  Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
  
   did not result in a jail sentence, paving the way for politicians to use Kurdish
  Kurdish language
  Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
  
   in their quest for votes.
• Campaigning was now allowed until two hours after sunset. Under the previous law, campaigning after sundown was forbidden.
• Citizens were able to vote without official identification as long as they could provide their identity number.
• Anyone who prevented someone from casting their vote would receive three to five years in prison.

Turkish voters living abroad will have to wait for another election to be able to cast their votes in the countries in which they are residing due to the inability to institute electronic voting. Turkish voters abroad thus needed to cast their votes at customs gates.

Regions

The number of MPs by province

Provinces of Turkey

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called il in Turkish .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....

 was redistributed according to the most recent population data. The number of deputies in Parliament for Istanbul was increased by 15, for Ankara by three and İzmir by two; Antalya, Diyarbakır, Van and Şırnak each received one more seat in Parliament. Ankara's two regions yielded 15 and 16 deputies. Istanbul, made up of three regions, elected 30, 27 and 28 deputies. İzmir, with two regions, elected 13 deputies each from both regions.

The number of MPs by province Provinces of Turkey Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called il in Turkish .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....
Adana Adana Province Adana Province is a province of Turkey located in south-central Anatolia. With a population of 2,085,225, it is the fifth most populous province in Turkey. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78% of the residents of the province...   14 Adıyaman Adiyaman Province Adıyaman Province is a province in south-central Turkey. The province was created in 1954 out of part of Malatya Province. Area 7,614 km². Population 590,935 , up from 513,131 in 1990. The capital is Adıyaman....  5 Afyonkarahisar Afyonkarahisar Province Afyonkarahisar Province , also called more simply Afyon Province, is a province in western Turkey.Adjacent provinces are Kütahya to the northwest, Uşak to the west, Denizli to the southwest, Burdur to the south, Isparta to the southeast, Konya to the east, and Eskişehir to the north. The provincial...   5 Ağrı Agri Province The Ağrı Province is a province in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran to the east, Kars to the North, Erzurum to the Northwest, Muş and Bitlis to the Southwest, Van to the south, and Iğdır to the northeast. Area 11,376 km². Population 542,022 ....   4 Amasya Amasya Province Amasya Province is a province of Turkey, situated on the Yeşil River in the Black Sea Region to the north of the country. Area 5,520 km². Population 334,786....  3 Ankara, region 1 Ankara Province Ankara Province in central Turkey is the location of the country's capital, the city of Ankara.Ankara also gave its name to the Ottoman Empire's Ankara Province which covered a larger area than the current province.- Geography :... , 15 Ankara, region 2 Ankara Province Ankara Province in central Turkey is the location of the country's capital, the city of Ankara.Ankara also gave its name to the Ottoman Empire's Ankara Province which covered a larger area than the current province.- Geography :... , 16 Antalya Antalya Province Antalya Province is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean sea.Antalya Province is the centre of Turkey's tourism industry, attracting 30% of foreign tourists visiting Turkey. The province of Antalya corresponds to the lands of...  14 Artvin Artvin Province Artvin Province is a province in Turkey, on the Black Sea coast in the north-eastern corner of the country, on the border with Georgia.The provincial capital is the city of Artvin.-Geography:...  2 Aydın Aydin Province Aydın Province is a province of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. The provincial capital is the city of Aydın which has a population of approx. 150,000 . Other towns in the province include the summer seaside resorts of Didim and Kuşadası.-History:Aydın was founded by the ancient...  7 Balıkesir Balikesir Province Balıkesir Province is a province in midwestern Turkey, having coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakkale to the west, İzmir to the southwest, Manisa to the south, Kütahya to the southeast, and Bursa to the east. The provincial capital is Balıkesir City...  8 Bilecik 2	Bingöl Bingöl Province Bingöl Province is a province of Turkey in Eastern Anatolia. The province was created in 1946 out of parts of Elazığ and Erzincan. The new province was known as Çapakçur Province until 1950. Its neighbouring provinces are Tunceli, Erzurum, Muş, Diyarbakır, Erzincan and Elazığ. The province covers...  3 Bitlis Bitlis Province Bitlis Province is a province of eastern Turkey, located to the west of Lake Van.-History:Bitlis was formed as an administrative district in the 17th Century...  3 Bolu Bolu Province Bolu Province is a province in north western in the Black Sea region of Turkey, midpoint between the large cities of Istanbul and Ankara. It covers an area of 7,410 km², and the population is 271,208....  3 Burdur Burdur Province Burdur Province is a province of Turkey, located in the southwest and bordering Muğla and Antalya to the South, Denizli to the West, Afyon to the North, and Isparta to the East...  3 Bursa Bursa Province Bursa Province is a province in western Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya to the south, Bilecik and Sakarya to the east, Kocaeli to the northeast and Yalova to the north. The province has an area of 11,043 km2 and a population of 3,187,000...  18 Çanakkale Çanakkale Province Çanakkale Province is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the town of Çanakkale.Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European and an Asian part. The European part is formed by the Gallipoli peninsula, while the Asian part is largely...  4 Çankırı Çankiri Province Çankırı Province is a province of Turkey, which lies close to the capital, Ankara. The provincial capital is Çankırı.-Economy:Çankırı is primarily agricultural with wheat, beans, corn and tomatoes the most common crops.-Climate:...  2 Çorum Çorum Province Çorum Province is a province in the Black Sea Region of Turkey, but lying inland and having more characteristics of Central Anatolia than the Black Sea coast....  4 Denizli Denizli Province Denizli Province is a province of Turkey in Western Anatolia, on high ground above the Aegean coast. Neighbouring provinces are Uşak to the north, Burdur, Isparta, Afyon to the east, Aydın, Manisa to the west and Muğla to the south. It is located between the coordinates 28° 30’ and 29° 30’ E and...  7 Diyarbakır Diyarbakir Province Diyarbakır Province is a province in eastern Turkey. The province covers an area of 15,355 km² and the population is 1,528,958. The provincial capital is Diyarbakir...  11 Edirne Edirne Province Edirne Province is the westernmost province of Turkey, located in Eastern Thrace along the Greek and Bulgarian border. The city's wealth, population and importance increased after it was declared as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire...  3 Elazığ Elazig Province Elâzığ Province is a province of Turkey with its seat in the city of Elâzığ. The source of the Euphrates river is located in this province.The province has a population of 552,646 as of 2010...  5	Erzincan Erzincan Province Erzincan Province is a province in the eastern region of Anatolia, Turkey, and home to Erzincan, a city which was destroyed and rebuilt after an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on December 27, 1939...  2 Erzurum Erzurum Province Erzurum Province is a Province of Turkey, in the Eastern Anatolia Region of the country. It is bordered by the provinces of Kars and Ağrı to the east, Muş and Bingöl to the south, Erzincan and Bayburt to the west, Rize and Artvin to the north and Ardahan to the northeast. The provincial capital is...   6 Eskişehir Eskisehir Province Eskişehir Province is a province in northwestern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Bilecik to the northwest, Kütahya to the west, Afyon to the southwest, Konya to the south, Ankara to the east, and Bolu to the north. The provincial capital is Eskişehir. Most of the province is laid down in...  6 Gaziantep Gaziantep Province Gaziantep Province is a province in south-central Turkey. Its capital is the city of Gaziantep which had a population of 853,513 as of 2000. Its neighbours are Adıyaman at north, Şanlıurfa at east, Syria and Kilis at south, Hatay at southwest, Osmaniye at west and Kahramanmaraş at northwest.An...  12 Giresun Giresun Province Giresun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane to the south-west, Erzincan to the south, Sivas to the south-east, and Ordu to the west. The provincial capital is Giresun....   4 Gümüşhane Gümüshane Province Gümüşhane Province is a province in northern Turkey, bordering Bayburt to the east, Trabzon to the north, Giresun and Erzincan to the west. It covers an area of 6,575 km² and has a population of 129,618 in 2010. The population was 186,953 in 2000. The name Gümüşhane means silver house...   2 Hakkâri Hakkari Province Hakkâri Province is a province in the south east corner of Turkey. The administrative centre is located in the city of Hakkâri . The province covers an area of 7,121 km² and has a population of 251,302 . The province had a population of 236,581 in 2000.The province was created in 1936 out of...   3 Hatay Hatay Province Hatay Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast. It is bordered by Syria to the south and east and the Turkish provinces of Adana and Osmaniye to the north. The province is part of Çukurova, a geographical, economical and cultural region that covers the provinces of...   10 Isparta Isparta Province Isparta Province is a province in southwestern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Afyon to the northwest, Burdur to the southwest, Antalya to the south, and Konya to the east. It has an area of 8,993 km² and a population of 448,298 up from 434,771...   4 Mersin Mersin Province The Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital is the city of Mersin and the other major town is Tarsus, birthplace of St Paul...   11 Istanbul, region 1 Istanbul Province Istanbul Province is a province located in north-west Turkey. It has an area of 5,196 km² and a population of 13,255,685. The population was 10,018,735 in 2000. It is surrounded by the provinces of Tekirdağ to the west, Kocaeli to the east, the Black Sea to the northern part and the Sea of... , 30 Istanbul, region 2 Istanbul Province Istanbul Province is a province located in north-west Turkey. It has an area of 5,196 km² and a population of 13,255,685. The population was 10,018,735 in 2000. It is surrounded by the provinces of Tekirdağ to the west, Kocaeli to the east, the Black Sea to the northern part and the Sea of... , 27	Istanbul, region 3 Istanbul Province Istanbul Province is a province located in north-west Turkey. It has an area of 5,196 km² and a population of 13,255,685. The population was 10,018,735 in 2000. It is surrounded by the provinces of Tekirdağ to the west, Kocaeli to the east, the Black Sea to the northern part and the Sea of... , 28 İzmir, region 1 Izmir Province İzmir Province is a province of Turkey in western Anatolia on the Aegean coast, whose capital is the city of İzmir. On the west it is surrounded by the Aegean sea, and it encloses the Gulf of İzmir. Its area is 11,973 km.2, population 3.948.848 . The population was 3,370,866 in 2000... , 13 İzmir, region 2 Izmir Province İzmir Province is a province of Turkey in western Anatolia on the Aegean coast, whose capital is the city of İzmir. On the west it is surrounded by the Aegean sea, and it encloses the Gulf of İzmir. Its area is 11,973 km.2, population 3.948.848 . The population was 3,370,866 in 2000... , 13 Kars Kars Province Kars Province is a province of Turkey, located in the northeastern part of the country. It shares part of its border with the Republic of Armenia.The provinces of Ardahan and Iğdır were until the 1990s part of Kars Province.-History:...  3 Kastamonu Kastamonu Province Kastamonu Province is one of the provinces of Turkey, in the Black Sea region, to the north of the country. It is surrounded by Sinop to the east, Bartın and Karabük to the west, Çankırı to the south, Çorum to the south east and the Black Sea to the north....  3 Kayseri Kayseri Province The Kayseri Province , in central Turkey, is an area that has been linked with mythological stories as well as important figures in Turkish history. It is located in Anatolia, and surrounded by the Mount Erciyes, the Mount Hasan and the Mount Ali...  9 Kırklareli Kirklareli Province Kırklareli Province is a province in northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. The province neighbours Bulgaria to the north along a 180 kilometers long border. It borders the province of Edirne to the west and the province of Tekirdağ to the south and province of Istanbul to the...  3 Kırşehir Kirsehir Province Kırşehir Province is located in central Turkey, forming part of the central Anatolian region. It stands on the North Anatolian Fault, and is currently in an earthquake warning zone. The average elevation is approximately 985 meters above sea level. The provincial capital is Kırşehir.It became a...  2 Kocaeli Kocaeli Province Kocaeli Province is a province of Turkey. Its capital is İzmit, which is sometimes referred to as Kocaeli itself. The largest town in the province is now Gebze. The traffic code is 41. The province is located at the easternmost end of the Marmara Sea, especially on the Gulf of İzmit. Because of...   11 Konya Konya Province Konya Province is a province of Turkey located in central Anatolia. The provincial capital is the city of Konya. It is the largest province by area of Turkey.-Districts:...  14 Kütahya Kütahya Province Kütahya Province is a province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is 11,889 km² in size, and the population is 590,496 . In 1990, Kütahya had a population of 578,020.-Districts:...  5 Malatya Malatya Province Malatya Province is a province of Turkey. It is part of a larger mountainous area. The capital of the province is Malatya , which has many residents. Malatya is famous for its apricots. The area of Malatya province is 12,313 km². Malatya Province has 740,643 inhabitants. The population was...   6	Manisa Manisa Province Manisa Province is a province in western Turkey. Its neighboring provinces are İzmir to the west, Aydın to the south, Denizli to the south east, Uşak to the east, Kütahya to the north east, and Balıkesir to the north...   10 Kahramanmaraş Kahramanmaras Province Kahramanmaraş is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is Kahramanmaraş city, the traffic code is 46.-Districts:Kahramanmaraş province is divided into 10 districts :*Afşin*Andırın*Çağlayancerit*Ekinözü*Elbistan*Göksun*Kahramanmaraş...   8 Mardin Mardin Province Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 744,606. The population was 835,173 in 2000. The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin...   6 Muğla Mugla Province Muğla Province is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, are on the coast in Muğla....   6 Muş Mus Province Muş Province is a province in eastern Turkey. It is 8,196 km² in area, and has a population of 406,886 . The population was 453,654 in 2000. The provincial capital is the city of Muş...  4 Nevşehir Nevsehir Province Nevşehir Province is a province in central Turkey with its capital in Nevşehir. It adjacent provinces are Kırşehir to the northwest, Aksaray to the southwest, Niğde to the south, Kayseri to the southeast, and Yozgat to the northeast. Nevşehir includes the area called Cappadocia - a very popular...   3 Niğde Nigde Province Niğde Province is a small rural province in the southern part of Central Anatolia, Turkey. Population is 337.931 of which 100.418 live in the city of Niğde. The population was 348,081 in 2000 and 305.861 in 1990. It covers an area of 7,312 km²...   3 Ordu Ordu Province Ordu Province is a province of Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, Sivas to the south, and Giresun to the east. Its traffic code is 52...   6 Rize Rize Province Rize Province is a province of north-east Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. Its capital is the city of Rize.-Geography:...  3 Sakarya Sakarya Province Sakarya Province is a province in Turkey, located on the coast of Black Sea. The river Sakarya creates a webbing of estuaries in the province....  7 Samsun Samsun Province Samsun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast with a population of 1,252,693 . Its adjacent provinces are Sinop on the northwest, Çorum on the west, Amasya on the south, Tokat on the southeast, and Ordu on the east...   9 Siirt Siirt Province Siirt Province is a province of Turkey, located in the southeast. The province borders Bitlis to the north, Batman to the west, Mardin to the southwest, Şırnak to the south, and Van to the east. It has an area of 5,406 km² and a total population of 300,695...   3	Sinop Sinop Province Sinop Province is a province of Turkey, along the Black Sea. It is located between 41 and 42 degrees North latitude and between 34 and 35 degrees East longitude. The surface area is 5,862 km², equivalent to 0.8% of Turkey's surface area. The borders total 475 km and consists of 300 km of land and...  2 Sivas Sivas Province The Sivas Province is a province of Turkey. It located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolian region of Turkey; it is the second largest province in Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri to the southwest, Kahramanmaraş to the south, Malatya to the southeast, Erzincan...   5 Tekirdağ Tekirdag Province The Tekirdağ Province is in Trakya , the northwestern part of Turkey. The capital city is Tekirdağ. It is famous for its meatball called "Tekirdağ köfte" and the Turkish alcoholic drink called Tekirdağ rakısı.-Districts:...   6 Tokat Tokat Province Tokat Province is a province in northern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Amasya to the northwest, Yozgat to the southwest, Sivas to the southeast, and Ordu to the northeast...   5 Trabzon Trabzon Province Trabzon Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Located in a strategically important region, Trabzon is one of the oldest trade port cities in Anatolia. Neighbouring provinces are Giresun to the west, Gümüşhane to the southwest, Bayburt to the southeast and Rize to the east. The...  6 Tunceli Tunceli Province The Tunceli Province is a province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The province was named Dersim Province and was changed to Tunceli Province on January 4, 1936. with the "Law on Administration of the Tunceli Province" , no...   2 Şanlıurfa Sanliurfa Province Şanlıurfa Province or simply Urfa Province is a province in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey. The city of Şanlıurfa is the capital of the province which bears its name. The population is 1,663,371 ....  12 Uşak Usak Province Uşak is a province in western Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Manisa to the west, Denizli to the south, Afyon to the east, and Kütahya to the north. The provincial capital is Uşak, and its traffic code is 64. The province covers an area of 5,341 km² and has a population of 335,860...  3 Van Van Province Van Province is a province in eastern Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. It is 19,069 km2 in area and had a population of 1,035,418 at the end of 2010....  8 Yozgat Yozgat Province Yozgat Province is a province in central Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Çorum to the northwest, Kırıkkale to the west, Kırşehir to the southwest, Nevşehir to the south, Kayseri to the southeast, Sivas to the east, Tokat to the northeast, and Amasya to the north...   4 Zonguldak Zonguldak Province Zonguldak Province is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. The province is 3.481 km² in size and has a population of 619,703 Its adjacent provinces are Düzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabük to the southeast, and Bartın to the east...  5 Aksaray Aksaray Province Aksaray Province is a province in central Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Konya along the west and south, Niğde to the southeast, Nevşehir to the east, and Kırşehir to the north. It covers an area of 7,626 km²...  3	Bayburt Bayburt Province Bayburt Province is a province in the north-east of Turkey. Population of the province is 74,412 and total area is 3,652 km². The capital city is Bayburt.- Districts :Bayburt province is divided into 3 districts :* Aydıntepe...  1 Karaman Karaman Province Karaman Province is a province of central Turkey. It has an area of 9,163 km². It has a population of 232,633 . According to the 2000 census the population was 243,210. Population density is 27.54 people/km². The traffic code is 70. The capital is the city of Karaman...  2 Kırıkkale Kirikkale Province Kırıkkale Province is a province of Turkey. It is located on the crossroads of major highways east of Ankara leading east to the Black Sea region. With its rapid population growth it has become an industrial center. The provincial capital is Kırıkkale....  3 Batman Batman Province Batman Province is a Turkish province southeast of Anatolia. The province's population exceeded 500,000 in 2010.The province is important because of its reserves and production of oil which was started in the 1940s. There is a 494-km long oil pipeline from Batman to the Turkish port of İskenderun....  4 Şırnak Şırnak Province The Şırnak Province is a Turkish province in southeastern Anatolia. It has a population of 430,109 . The population was 353,197 in 2000....  4 Bartın Bartin Province Bartın Province is a small province in northern Turkey on the Black Sea, surrounding the city of Bartın. It is to the east from Zonguldak Province.The town of Bartın contains a number of very old wooden houses which are no longer extant in other places....  2 Ardahan Ardahan Province Ardahan Province is a province in the far north-east of Turkey, at the very end of the country, where Turkey borders with Georgia . The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan.- Geography :...  2 Iğdır Igdir Province Iğdır Province is a province in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan , and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars to the northwest and Ağrı to the west and south...  2 Yalova Yalova Province Yalova Province is a province in northwestern Turkey, on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Bursa to the south and Kocaeli to the east. The provincial capital is the city of Yalova. The population of the Yalova Province is 203,741...  2 Karabük Karabük Province Karabük Province is a province in northern central Turkey with a total population of 227,610 .The main city is Karabük which is located about 200 km north of Ankara and about 100 km south of the Black Sea coast...  2 Kilis Kilis Province Kilis Province is a province in south-central Turkey. It used to be the southern part of the province of Gaziantep and was formed in 1994. The town of Kilis is home to around 67% of the inhabitants of the province, the other towns and villages are very small.-History:There is evidence of human...  2 Osmaniye Osmaniye Province Osmaniye Province is a Turkish province located in southern Turkey. It became a province in 1996. The province was part of Adana Province. It covers an area of 3,767 km² and has a population of 479,221 . The province is situated in Çukurova, a geographical, economical and cultural region.The...  4 Düzce Düzce Province Düzce Province is a province in northwestern Turkey. It is on the coastline of the Black Sea and is traversed by the main highway between Istanbul and Ankara. The main town is Düzce...  3

Parties

On March 5, 2011, Turkey's Supreme Election Board announced that twenty-seven political parties had signed up to participate in the June 12 general elections:

• Alternative Party (Alternatif Parti, AP)
• Communist Party of Turkey
  Communist Party of Turkey (current)
  The Communist Party of Turkey is a political party in Turkey. It is known as the TKP since changing the name of the party from the Party for Socialist Power in 2001....
  
   (Türkiye Komünist Partisi, TKP)
• Democratic Party (Demokrat Parti, DP)
• Democratic Left Party
  Democratic Left Party (Turkey)
  The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup...
  
   (Demokratik Sol Parti, DSP)
• Equality and Democracy Party
  Equality and Democracy Party
  Equality and Democracy Party is a Social Democratic, libertarian socialist political party in Turkey. It was founded on 14 March 2010 by Ziya Halis.-External links:*...
  
   (Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, EDP)
• Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi, SP)
• Freedom and Solidarity Party
  Freedom and Solidarity Party
  Freedom and Solidarity Party is a left-wing party in Turkey. The party has had limited electoral success, although it controls a number of town halls and is influential in some unions of public employees...
  
   (Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi, ÖDP)
• Great Union Party
  Great Union Party
  The Great Union Party is a nationalist political party in Turkey, created on January 29, 1993. It is considered to be close to the Grey Wolves organization, and is related to the "Alperen Ocakları" tendency, which operated a synthesis between Islamism and Turkish Nationalism, and separated itself...
  
   (Büyük Birlik Partisi, BBP)
• Homeland Party
  Homeland Party
  The Homeland Party is a right-wing, nationalist and conservative, political party in Turkey. The party was founded on 2002 by Saadettin Tantan. In the last elections, the party won 0.9% of the vote and got no seats....
  
   (Yurt Parti, YURT-P)
• Independent Turkey Party
  Independent Turkey Party
  The Independent Turkey Party is a nationalist and Islamic political party founded on 25 September 2001 by Prof Dr. Haydar Baş. The party flag is red with a white crescent surrounded with a ring of white stars. The party polled 0.5% of the vote in the Turkish general elections of both 2002 and 2007....
  
   (Bağımsız Türkiye Partisi, BTP)
• Justice and Development Party
  Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
  The Justice and Development Party , abbreviated JDP in English and AK PARTİ or AKP in Turkish, is a centre-right political party in Turkey. The party is the largest in Turkey, with 327 members of parliament...
  
   (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AK Party)
• Labour Party
  Labour Party (Turkey)
  Labour Party is a political party in Turkey. Its chairman is Selma Gurkan. The party was founded as Emek Partisi in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name Emeğin Partisi , the same year...
  
   (Emek Partisi, EMEP)
• Liberal Democratic Party
  Liberal Democratic Party (Turkey)
  The Liberal Democratic Party is a liberal party in Turkey. LDP was founded in 1994 as Liberal Parti by Turkish entrepreneur Besim Tibuk. Besim Tibuk was the consultant of Turgut Özal till he died in 17 April 1993...
  
   (Liberal Demokrat Parti, LDP)
• Nation Party (Millet Partisi, MP)

• Nationalist and Conservative Party
  Nationalist and Conservative Party
  Nationalist and Conservative Party is a Turkish nationalist and conservative political party founded in 2010. The party received 0.09% of the vote in the 2011 general election.-External links:* Official website...
  
   (Milliyetçi ve Muhafazakar Parti, MMP)
• Nationalist Movement Party
  Nationalist Movement Party
  The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote...
  
   (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP)
• New Party (Yeni Parti, YP)
• Peace and Democracy Party
  Peace and Democracy Party
  The Peace and Democracy Party ) is a political party in the Republic of Turkey. It succeeded the Democratic Society Party following the closure of the latter party for its alleged connections with the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the EU.The BDP has observer status in the...
  
   (Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi, BDP)
• People's Ascent Party
  People's Ascent Party
  The People's Ascent Party is a Turkish political party founded by the Istanbul MP and theologian Yaşar Nuri Öztürk on 16 February 2005, adopting the principles of a democratic state of law....
  
   (Halkın Yükselişi Partisi, HYP)
• People's Voice Party
  People's Voice Party
  The People's Voice Party is a current political party in Turkey. It was founded on November 1, 2010 by Numan Kurtulmuş.-External links:* official site...
  
   (Halkın Sesi Partisi, HAS Parti)
• Republican People's Party
  Republican People's Party (Turkey)
  The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to...
  
   (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP)
• Rights and Equality Party
  Rights and Equality Party
  Rights and Equality Party is a political party in Turkey, founded on 4 September 2008 by Osman Pamukoğlu, a former army general known and admitted in the public sense during his extraordinary success between Turkish State and separatist, militant organization PKK by breaking the terrorism activity...
  
   (Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi, HEPAR)
• Rights and Freedoms Party (Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi, HAKPAR)
• True Path Party
  True Path Party
  The Democratic Party , abbreviated to DP, is a centre-right, conservative Turkish political party, established by Suleyman Demirel in 1983 as the Right Path Party...
  
   (Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP)
• Turkey Party
  Turkey Party
  Turkey Party is a liberal conservative party in Turkey which founded on 25 May 2009 by Abdüllatif Şener. It has one seat in Turkish Grand National Assembly.-External links:*...
  
   (Türkiye Partisi, TP)
• Workers' Party
  Workers' Party (Turkey)
  Workers' Party is political party in Turkey led by Doğu Perinçek. İP has its roots in the Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey , Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey and Socialist Party...
  
   (İşçi Partisi, İP)
• Young Party
  Young Party
  The Young Party is a nationalist, statist, secular, republican, political party in Turkey.-2002 elections:Cem Uzan entered politics 90 days before the 2002 elections. Young Party was not eligible to enter the elections and Yeniden Doğuş Partisi was a small party which was eligible to enter...
  
   (Genç Parti, GP)

Nine smaller political parties decided to change their election strategy. Some of them decided to participate in the elections as independent

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

, while others formed an alliance

Political coalition

A political coalition or political alliance is an agreement for cooperation between different political parties on common political agenda, often for purposes of contesting an election to mutually benefit by collectively clearing election thresholds or otherwise benefiting from characteristics of...

 under one party.
On April 19, 2011, the Supreme Election Board announced that ÖDP and YP could not join the June 12 general elections as they could not hand out their necessary documents on time. Thus, the number of political parties joined the elections dropped to 15.

Justice and Development Party

The large number of applications gave the ruling Justice and Development Party

Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

The Justice and Development Party , abbreviated JDP in English and AK PARTİ or AKP in Turkish, is a centre-right political party in Turkey. The party is the largest in Turkey, with 327 members of parliament...

 (AK Party) nearly 15 million Turkish Liras in revenue ahead of the June 12 general elections.
AK Party, which had the most female deputies in the outgoing Parliament, planned to expand that number for the new term. Its aim was that all provinces with four to five deputies had at least one female deputy candidate during the election. The total 5,599 applications to the AK Party included those of 855 female candidates and 315 candidates with disabilities. Each male applicant paid a fee of 3,000 liras, while women paid half that sum and people with disabilities had their fees waived. The applications thus brought in a total of 14.85 million liras to the party. This revenue, however, will not remain in the AK Party's bank account after the elections, party leader Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party , which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara...

 said, explaining that candidates who did not make it onto the party's list will have their money returned.

Key figures who applied to be AK Party candidates included Ambassador Volkan Bozkır

Volkan Bozkır

Volkan Bozkır is a Turkish ambassador and a member of Parliament since June 2011. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party.-Professional Career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: - External links :*...

, the head of Turkey's General Secretariat for the European Union

Accession of Turkey to the European Union

Turkey's application to accede to the European Union was made on 14 April 1987. Turkey has been an associate member of the European Union and its predecessors since 1963...

 and former Istanbul

Istanbul Province

Istanbul Province is a province located in north-west Turkey. It has an area of 5,196 km² and a population of 13,255,685. The population was 10,018,735 in 2000. It is surrounded by the provinces of Tekirdağ to the west, Kocaeli to the east, the Black Sea to the northern part and the Sea of...

 Governor Muammer Güler

Muammer Güler

Muammer Güler is a Turkish civil servant and was previously the governor of Istanbul Province.-Biography:Güler was born in Mardin, Turkey. He completed his primary education in Ankara and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ankara in 1972. Güler began his career as candidate...

.

April 12, 2011, was the last date for political parties to submit their list of candidate MPs to the Higher Election Board for the general elections. Prime Minister Erdoğan dismissed half his party's parliamentary deputies for this election, aiming to rejuvenate the party as he sought a third term in power. Erdoğan nominated only 146 deputies out of the 333 parliamentary seats for the ruling Justice & Development party to stand again in this election. Of the AK Party's 550 candidates, 514 had university degrees. There were also 11 people with disabilities on the list. Important figures from the party kept their positions with many ministers moved to the coastal regions where the party previously attracted fewer votes.

Following a rally by Erdoğan in Kastamonu

Kastamonu

Kastamonu is the capital district of the Kastamonu Province, Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 102,059 of which 64,606 live in the urban center of Kastamonu. The district covers an area of , and the town lies at an elevation of...

 on 4 May, assailants ambushed a police convoy killing one person and wounding another. The Kurdistan Workers Party

Kurdistan Workers Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party , commonly known as PKK, also known as KGK and formerly known as KADEK or KONGRA-GEL , is a Kurdish organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan and greater cultural and political rights...

 claimed responsibility for the attack after Erdoğan accused "separatists" at another rally for the attack.

Republican People's Party

The 2011 general election was the first general election in which Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Kemal Kiliçdaroglu

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is a Turkish social democrat politician. He is currently leader of the Republican People's Party and Leader of the Main Opposition in Turkey. He has been the Member of Parliament for İstanbul since 2002....

 participated as the leader of Republican People's Party

Republican People's Party (Turkey)

The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to...

 (CHP). The former CHP leader Deniz Baykal

Deniz Baykal

Deniz Baykal is a Turkish politician. He was a long-time leader of the Republican People's Party .-Biography:...

 resigned from his post in May 2010 and left the CHP with 26% of the votes, according to opinion polls. Kılıçdaroğlu announced that he would resign from his post if he was not successful in the 2011 elections. He did not provide details as to what his criteria for success were. Over 3,500 people applied to run for the main opposition party in the June elections. Male candidates paid 3,000 Turkish Liras to submit an application; female candidates paid 2,000 while those with disabilities paid 500 liras. Among the candidates were former CHP leader Deniz Baykal and arrested Ergenekon suspects such as Mustafa Balbay

Mustafa Balbay

Mustafa Balbay is a Turkish journalist and Ergenekon suspect.- References :...

 and Mehmet Haberal

Mehmet Haberal

Mehmet Haberal is a surgeon in Turkey. He is the founder and exrector of Başkent University and owner of the Kanal B television station. In April 2009 he was arrested and charged for his involvement in Ergenekon.-References:...

.

The party held primary elections in 29 provinces. Making a clean break with the past, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu left his mark on the Republican People's Party's 435-candidate list, leaving off 78 current deputies as he sought to redefine and reposition the main opposition. The CHP's candidate list also included 11 politicians who were formerly part of center-right parties, such as the Motherland Party

Motherland Party (Turkey)

The Motherland Party, was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 1983 by Turgut Özal. It was merged to Democratic Party in October 2009...

, the True Path Party

True Path Party

The Democratic Party , abbreviated to DP, is a centre-right, conservative Turkish political party, established by Suleyman Demirel in 1983 as the Right Path Party...

 and the Turkey Party

Turkey Party

Turkey Party is a liberal conservative party in Turkey which founded on 25 May 2009 by Abdüllatif Şener. It has one seat in Turkish Grand National Assembly.-External links:*...

. Center-right voters gravitated toward the AK Party when these other parties virtually collapsed after the 2002 elections. Key party figures that did not make it on to the list, criticised the CHP for making "a shift in axis."

Polls

In the local elections of 2009

Turkish local elections, 2009

Turkey held local elections on 29 March 2009. The overal winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 general election...

, the ruling AK Party received 39% of the votes. The second party CHP received 23% of the votes, and the third party MHP received 16% of the votes. In the run up to the general election of 2011, the polling organisations noted a growth in the popularity of the AK Party. Polling organisations showed a rate between 42% and 51%. For CHP, the numbers varied between 25% and 30%. MHP was mostly shown between 10% and 14%

Nationwide results

The provisional election results were announced at 18:30 (UTC+2

UTC+2

UTC+02 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as . This time is used in:-Central Africa Time:*Botswana*Burundi*Democratic Republic of the Congo...

) on June 12, 2011. The official election results will be announced when all votes are counted.

Analysis

The ruling party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party , which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara...

 won a third term in parliamentary elections. Erdoğan is the only prime minister in Turkish history to win three consecutive general elections and each time receive more votes than in the previous election. Four party groups will take their place in Turkey's new Parliament as electoral officials had counted all the votes. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will form a majority government after winning just a shade under 50 percent of the popular vote; the incumbents will be joined again by the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in the legislature. The 327 seats won by AK Party are slightly less than the 330 required to propose constitutional changes to a referendum without the support of other parties in parliament, and falls far short of the two-thirds majority needed to rewrite Turkey's 1982 military constitution unilaterally without the need for a referendum.
A total of 73 AK Party senior officials were elected for the last time in this election. The party's bylaws state that a person can run for Parliament for three consecutive terms at most. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, parliamentary Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin

Mehmet Ali Sahin

Mehmet Ali Şahin is a Turkish politician. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey between 2009 and 2011....

, deputy prime ministers Bülent Arınç

Bülent Arinç

Bülent Arınç , is a Turkish politician. He served as the 22nd house speaker of the Parliament of Turkey from 2002 to 2007. He is one of the State Ministers of Turkey and Vice-Prime Minister today.-Life and education:...

, Cemil Çiçek

Cemil Çiçek

Cemil Çiçek is a Turkish politician who is the current Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey since July 4, 2011. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and Justice and Development Party Member of Parliament from Ankara. He was formerly Minister of Justice and government spokesman.-Early...

, Ali Babacan

Ali Babacan

Ali Babacan is a Turkish politician and the current Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for the Economy. He was previously Minister of Economy in the 58th cabinet from the Justice and Development Party . On August 29, 2007, he was named Minister of Foreign Affairs of in the cabinet of...

, ministers Beşir Atalay

Besir Atalay

Beşir Atalay is a Turkish politician who is the current Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He was Minister of the Interior from 28 August 2007 to 14 July 2011.-Early years and academic career:...

, Faruk Çelik

Faruk Çelik

Faruk Çelik is the Minister of Work and Social Security of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Bursa of the ruling Justice and Development Party....

, Mehmet Mehdi Eker

Mehmet Mehdi Eker

Mehmet Mehdi Eker is Minister of Agriculture of Turkey and Member of Parliament for Diyarbakır of the ruling party, Justice and Development Party ....

, Sadullah Ergin

Sadullah Ergin

Sadullah Ergin is a Turkish politician born July 6, 1964 in Antakya. He completed his primary and secondary education there, then studied at the Uludağ University Economics and Social Sciences Faculty for 1 year...

, Egemen Bağış

Egemen Bagis

Egemen Bağış is a Turkish politician, member of Turkish parliament since November 2002, current minister for EU Affairs and chief negotiator of Turkey in accession talks with the European Union...

, Nimet Çubukçu

Nimet Çubukçu

Nimet Baş is a Turkish politician and lawyer. She has been the Member of Parliament from the Justice and Development Party since 2002...

, Hayati Yazıcı

Hayati Yazici

Hayati Yazıcı is a Turkish lawyer and politician. He is currently one of Turkey's Minister of State.Hayati Yazıcı graduated 1975 from the School of Law at Istanbul University and served as judge in several towns...

, Vecdi Gönül

Vecdi Gönül

Mehmet Vecdi Gönül is Minister of Defence of Turkey and Member of Parliament for Kocaeli.-Biography:Gönül's father, Saffet, was a teacher in Military high schools. His mother's name was Lütfiye. He graduated in political science from Ankara University in 1960 and returned to Erzincan as a civil...

, Taner Yıldız

Taner Yıldız

Taner Yıldız is a Turkish politician. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party and the Energy and Natural Resources Minister of Turkey....

, Nihat Ergün

Nihat Ergün

Nihat Ergün is a Turkish politician born in Izmit.Ergün completed primary, middle and high schools in Izmit. He graduated from the Marmara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1984....

, Binali Yıldırım

Binali Yildirim

Binali Yıldırım is the current Minister of Transport of Turkey and a MP for Istanbul of the ruling Justice and Development Party.He was educated the Istanbul Technical University's School of Maritime...

 and Recep Akdağ

Recep Akdag

Recep Akdağ is the minister of health of Turkey, a position he has held since 2002, and Member of Parliament for Erzurum.-Biography:Dr. Akdağ was born in Erzurum on 8 May, 1960. His father's name is Yahya and his mother's name is Zekiye. He completed his primary and secondary education in Erzurum...

 are among those who will not be eligible for nomination in the next general election.

The second largest party in parliament, the Republican People's Party, won 25.9% of the vote. MHP won 13% of the vote, more than the 10% threshold required to win seats in Parliament. Thirty-five independent candidates, all of whom were backed by the Kurdish BDP under their Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc alliance (together with other parties, including the Rights and Freedoms Party, the Participatory Democracy Party and the Labour Party

Labour Party (Turkey)

Labour Party is a political party in Turkey. Its chairman is Selma Gurkan. The party was founded as Emek Partisi in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name Emeğin Partisi , the same year...

), were also voted in. Leyla Zana

Leyla Zana

Leyla Zana , is a Kurdish politician, who was imprisoned for 10 years for her political actions which were claimed to be against the unity of Turkey. When she was a member of pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, she was banned from joining any political party for five years with the Constitutional...

 (50) returns to Parliament two decades after she was elected to the national assembly for the first time in 1991. Erol Dora became Turkey's first Syriac lawmaker.

The number of female deputies was boosted from 46 to 78. With 44 female deputies, the AK Party ranks the first. This term, there will be 20 female deputies from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), three from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and 11 among the Kurdish Peace and Democracy (BDP)-backed independents in Parliament.

Erol Dora, an Assyrian lawyer elected as independent but supported by the BDP, is the first Christian member of parliament since 1960 (the Armenian Migirdich Shellefyan was a MP in 1955-1960) and the first non-Muslim since 1999 (the Jew Cefi Kamhi was a MP in 1995-1999).

The oldest member of Parliament Oktay Ekşi

Oktay Ekşi

Osman Oktay Ekşi is a Turkish journalist, author and politician. He was elected as a member of Parliament for the Republican People's Party in the 2011 general election. He is the oldest MP of the 24th parliamentary term....

 from CHP, who was the youngest member of Constituent Assembly of 1961, will act as the parliamentary speaker temporarily during the oath ceremony. Bilal Macit

Bilal Macit

Muhammet Bilal Macit is a Turkish politician. He was elected to Parliament in the 2011 general election as a Justice and Development Party deputy.-Early life:Macit was born on September 11, 1984 in Istanbul...

 (27) from AK party has become the youngest member of Parliament.

Hatip Dicle

Hatip Dicle

Hatip Dicle , full name Mehmet Hatip Dicle, is a Turkish politician, of Kurdish origin, of the Peace and Democracy Party .In 1979 he graduated in engineering from the Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi...

 (BDP) was stripped of his seat after losing an appeal against a prior conviction for spreading terrorist propaganda. His seat will likely go to Oya Eronat of the AKP. There are speculations that the remaining BDP MPs will boycott parliament because of this incident, which could lead to by-elections and tension in the Kurdish regions of Turkey. Both AKP and CHP favoured amending the law in this case to allow Dicle to take his seat; a similar case had already applied to PM Erdoğan in 2003, when the law was also changed to allow for his seating.

Two CHP MPs, journalist Mustafa Balbay

Mustafa Balbay

Mustafa Balbay is a Turkish journalist and Ergenekon suspect.- References :...

 and academic Mehmet Haberal

Mehmet Haberal

Mehmet Haberal is a surgeon in Turkey. He is the founder and exrector of Başkent University and owner of the Kanal B television station. In April 2009 he was arrested and charged for his involvement in Ergenekon.-References:...

, were in jail at the time for suspected involvement in the Ergenekon

Ergenekon

Ergenekon is the name of the place where Nekuz and Qiyan and their wives escaped to, and who were the original Mongols in Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh written by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani at the beginning of the 14th century...

 conspiracy; applications for their release were denied, which was strongly criticized by the CHP, who said they would appeal the ruling.

BDP and CHP both boycotted parliament's opening ceremony, as Dicle had been stripped of his seat and eight other MPs were refused attendance due to prison terms considered political by both BDP and CHP.

International organisations

- Secretary-General Amr Moussa

Amr Moussa

Amr Mohammed Moussa is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab states, from 1 June 2001 until 1 June 2011. He is a candidate in the 2011 Egyptian presidential election....

 congratulated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu

Ahmet Davutoglu

Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu is a Turkish political scientist, an academic and an ambassador. On May 1, 2009, he was named Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey after being the chief advisor to the Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey.-Life and career:...

 and the Turkish people in this "historic moment". He also thanked the government of Turkey for opening the Turkish-Syrian border to Syrian refugees that fled the country. - European Parliament's Turkey rapporteur Ria Oomen-Ruijten

Ria Oomen-Ruijten

Ria Oomen-Ruijten is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, a member of the bureau of the EPP-ED group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.She is also a substitute for the Committee...

 congratulated Erdoğan and AK Party, and said that AK Party government, which was elected for the third time, undertook an important responsibility. Ruijten wanted the government to be loyal to EU accession process and reforms. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and President of the European Council

President of the European Council

The President of the European Council is a principal representative of the European Union on the world stage, and the person presiding over and driving forward the work of the European Council...

 Herman Van Rompuy

Herman Van Rompuy

Herman Achille Van Rompuy is the first long-term and full-time President of the European Council...

 sent a joint message to Erdoğan on his landslide election victory in Sunday's polls. "The results of the elections pave the way for the continuation of strengthening Turkey's democratic institutions as well as the modernization of the country", Barroso and Rompuy said. The President of the European Parliament

President of the European Parliament

The President of the European Parliament presides over the debates and activities of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President's signature is required for enacting most EU laws and the EU budget.Presidents serve...

 (EP), Jerzy Buzek

Jerzy Buzek

Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...

, congratulated Erdogan on Monday on the victory of the Justice and Development (AK) Party in Sunday's elections. In his message, Buzek underlined that such a great victory implied great need for responsibility in progressing for much needed reforms. - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic composition of democratically elected members of parliament established on the basis of an...

 (PACE) President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is the current president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He also represents Antalya Province in the Turkish Grand National Assembly...

 said his respect for Erdoğan had increased and noted that the elections, in which he was also running, have been democratic and transparent. - Speaking to AA in the British capital of London, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu is a Turkish academic, diplomat and currently the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , the second largest intergovernmental organisation after the United Nations...

 commented on the results of Sunday's general elections in Turkey. "Turkish nation gives the necessary messages in every election. However, these messages should be read well by politicians and the new parliament, and actions should be taken accordingly. That is the most important thing", he said.

Others

• European People's Party (EPP) - The president of the EPP Wilfried Martens
  Wilfried Martens
  Wilfried Martens is a Belgian politician. He was born in Sleidinge . Martens was the 44th Prime Minister of Belgium from 3 April 1979 to 6 April 1981 and 17 December 1981 to 7 March 1992....
  
   congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his party's 3rd consecutive victory in parliamentary elections. "We hope that this new process will bring Turkey closer to the European Union", Martens said.
• Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)
  Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
  The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats is the social-democratic political group in the European Parliament, formed by MEPs of the Party of European Socialists and allied centre-left parties. The group dates its ancestry via various names back to the beginning of the European...
  
   - The chairman of the S&D Martin Schulz
  Martin Schulz
  Martin Schulz is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, since 2004 leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament .-Career:* 1975-1977: Apprentice...
  
   welcomed the results of the general election. "This election result makes it possible for Turkey to maintain its political stability and to continue on the road to modernisation of the country with a view to further integration with the European Union", Schulz said.

Countries

- President Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...

 sent a message to Erdoğan congratulating him for the victory of the Justice and Development Party in Sunday's elections. - President Bamir Topi

Bamir Topi

Bamir Myrteza Topi is the fifth and current President of Albania since 24 July 2007. He was also Honorary President of Albanian football club KF Tirana from 2005 to 2007.-Early life and public activities:...

 sent a message to Erdoğan congratulating him for the victory. While Prime minister Sali Berisha

Sali Berisha

Sali Ram Berisha is an Albanian politician and cardiologist, currently the Prime Minister of Albania and the leader of Democratic Party of Albania ....

 also congratulated Erdogan for his victory. - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev is the President of Azerbaijan since 2003. He also functions as the Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party and the head of the National Olympic Committee...

 called Erdoğan late Sunday to congratulate him on his victory by wide margin. Aliyev also invited Erdoğan to Azerbaijan for the joint consideration and further development of "our future possibilities of cooperation." - Foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei congratulated Erdoğan. He said that the China–Turkey relations have improved in recent years and that the strategic partnership

Strategic partnership

A strategic partnership is a formal alliance between two commercial enterprises, usually formalized by one or more business contracts but falls short of forming a legal partnership or, agency, or corporate affiliate relationship....

 between the two countries began in 2010. - Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Egypt

The Prime Minister of Egypt is the head of the Egyptian government. According to the constitution, the prime minister is the leader of the largest political party in the Egyptian Parliament....

 Essam Sharaf

Essam Sharaf

Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf is an Egyptian academic who has been Prime Minister of Egypt since 3 March 2011. He served as Minister of Transportation from 2004 to 2005.-Early life and education:...

 telephoned his Turkish counterpart to congratulate him on winning Turkey's parliamentary elections. The prime minister expressed Egypt's keenness on cementing relations with Turkey and exchanging expertise in all domains. Sharaf conveyed to Erdogan greetings from Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces consists of a body of 20 senior officers in the Egyptian military. As a consequence of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the Council took the power to govern Egypt from its departing President Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011.The junta meets regularly, as...

. - President Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....

 sent a congratulatory message to Erdogan on his victory in the elections. In his message, President Sarkozy said that he wanted to further strengthen Turkey-France cooperation. We affirmed our will to further strengthen our cooperation in all areas and to exchange views on global and regional issues during my visit to Ankara in February, he said. He said that France wanted to work with Turkey, one of its significant partners and allies, to ensure stability and prosperity in the region. - Chancellor Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel

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 congratulated Erdoğan in a letter and praised his modernization policy. "The result reflects the success of your modernization policy in the past years" she said. - President Mikheil Saakashvili

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 congratulates Turkish Prime Minister on the Justice and Development Party (AKP)'s victory in the parliamentary elections. In a Monday message to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Saakashvili hailed the AKP's landslide victory in the elections. - Prime Minister

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 George Papandreou

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 called Erdoğan on the phone and congratulated his victory. - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

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 congratulated Erdoğan on the success of his party. - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a message to Erdoğan, congratulating the premier on the election success of his Justice and Development Party in Sunday's polls. - President Jalal Talabani

Jalal Talabani

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 congratulated Erdoğan and said the poll results show that Turks see the AK Party's management of the country as the best way for development and prosperity. He said the election results also prove that Turks support policies to solve problems related to ethnic and social issues and foreign policy that are based on freedom, justice and principles and values that require democracy. - Prime Minister

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 Benjamin Netanyahu

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 had welcomed Turkey's "free and democratic" elections and wants to improve the relations. "We are pleased because in this region there is rarely a guarantee that free and fair elections exist" he said. - Prime Minister

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 Karim Masimov sent a message to Erdoğan on Monday congratulating him over the election success of his Justice and Development Party in Sunday's polls. - Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan

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 Almazbek Atambayev

Almazbek Atambayev

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 congratulated Erdoğan and underlined Turkey's development under the "smart management" of the prime minister as the factor that led to the success and prosperity of the Turkish people. - former Prime Minister Saad Hariri

Saad Hariri

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 contacted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to congratulate him on his victory and his party's success in Turkey's legislative elections on Sunday, according to a statement issued by Hariri's office. - President

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 Felipe de Jesus Calderon called Erdogan on the phone and congratulated him. - Sultan

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 Qaboos bin Said Al Said has sent a cable of congratulations to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party, on the occasion of his party's victory in the legislative elections that took place Turkey. His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere congratulations, along with his best wishes of success to Erdogan, hoping he will achieve further progress for the friendly people of Turkey. - Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Pakistan

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 Yousaf Raza Gillani

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 telephoned his Turkish counterpart to felicitate him over his party's successive victory in the elections. Congratulating the Turkish Prime Minister on behalf of the people and the government of Pakistan as well as his own and on behalf of his family, Prime Minister Gilani said that AK Party's impressive electoral success shows a victory for democracy. He further said that "this win of his party in third consecutive elections speaks volumes about the trust Turkish people repose in his leadership and the government's policies." The Prime Minister hoped that the relations with Turkey would further be strengthened under the stewardship of Erdoğan as both brotherly nations have mutuality of views on regional and international issues. - President

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 Mahmud Abbas sent a letter to Turkish President Abdullah Gul

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 and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leader of the AK Party, congratulating them for winning the elections. Abbas also praised "Turkey's firmly established positions and its support to our people and our struggle for freedom and the establishment of the independent Palestinian state." - Sheikh

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 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani held talks on the phone with Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During the conversations, the Emir congratulated them for the victory of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the parliamentary elections held on Sunday besides discussing relations between Qatar and Turkey. - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

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 congratulated Erdogan on the victory of his party at the elections. "The voting results are evidence of the wide recognition of your personal merits as a prime minister and of the real achievements that have been made in the social and economic areas of the Turkish Republic. I would particularly like to highlight the major contribution that you and your party have been making to strengthening partner relations between our countries. For its part, Russia is ready and willing to cooperate closely with you to further promote mutually beneficial partnership. From the very bottom of my heart, I wish you health and happiness, and new achievements and victories to the Justice and Development Party" he said. President Dmitry Medvedev

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 also congratulated Erdogan on his party's victory. According to the Russian President, Russian-Turkish relations during the AKP's rule were developing successfully and the Kremlin looks forward to cooperating with the Turkish authorities in various fields. - Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

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 sent a letter to his Turkish counterpart on Sunday night congratulating him for the victory of the Justice and Development Party in Sunday's elections. In his letter, Zapatero said that the "three back to back victories of the AK Party is a clear indication of the confidence the Turkish people have in Erdoğan and his administration". Zapatero said that relations between Spain and Turkey were "excellent" and that the new term in Turkey will provide an opportunity to further strengthen the relations between the two countries. - Foreign Minister Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt

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 said that the elections in Turkey ended with an impressive victory for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party. In a note posted on his internet site, Bildt said that the election victory was a reason to congratulate Erdogan and his party. Turkey's growing economy, active foreign policy, and stance on the developments taking place in the Arabic world recently have led Turkey's people to extend a strong support to the future. What is crucial from now on is a new and more democratic constitution, Bildt said. - President Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad is the President of Syria and Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party. His father Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria for 29 years until his death in 2000. Al-Assad was elected in 2000, re-elected in 2007, unopposed each time.- Early Life :...

 congratulated Erdogan on his victory in the parliamentary elections during a phone conversation. The conversation, which began as a congratulatory call from Assad to Erdogan over his election victory, turned to the topic of violence and reforms in Syria. Erdogan told Assad he must make a timetable for reforms, and implement them urgently. The next day, President Bashar al-Assad send a special delegation led by Hasan Turkmani

Hasan Turkmani

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 to the Turkish capital of Ankara to meet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. - President Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych

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 has congratulated Erdogan in a letter posted on his official website. "This success is a sign of the support by the Turkish people of the efforts that your political party and you personally are taking to develop a democratic Turkish state and ensure the interests of the Turkish people", he wrote. The president noted that Ukraine wanted to strengthen friendly relations with Turkey and deepen their strategic partnership, which was launched during the Turkish prime minister's recent visit to Kyiv. - President

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 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan sent a congratulatory cable to Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, also sent a similar cable to Erdogan. General Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

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, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, also congratulated the Turkish PM on the parliamentary victory. - Prime Minister David Cameron

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 called Erdoğan on the phone and congratulated his victory. The leaders also agreed there needs to be a united and determined international approach to pressure Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi

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. Cameron told Erdoğan that he is pleased with Turkey's leadership role, particularly in coordinating and hosting the Libya Contact Group

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 in Turkey next month. - President Barack Obama

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 called Turkish prime minister from his plane en route to Puerto Rico

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 from Miami to congratulate him on historic electoral victory with 50 percent of vote that won him the third term. "He called to congratulate the prime minister on his party's victory in the parliamentary elections", White House spokesman Jay Carney

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 said

Others - President

President of Northern Cyprus

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 Dervis Eroglu

Dervis Eroglu

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 sent a message to Erdoğan and congratulated Erdoğan on the victory Justice & Development Party won in Sunday's parliamentary elections. "On behalf of Turkish Cypriot people, I sincerely congratulate you on recording a great success on June 12 parliamentary elections and on gaining the opportunity to form a government on your own", Eroglu said. - Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Kosovo

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 Hashim Thaci

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congratulated Erdoğan and said the guarantee of Turkey's success lay under the prime minister's determination in strengthening the rapid development of Turkey and pushing for good neighborly relations, peace, stability and cooperation among countries in the region.

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