Ankara, June 13 (ANI): The Islamist-rooted party of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the parliamentary elections for the third time, riding a wave of support from the poor and the newly emergent Muslim middle class in the country.
Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party won about 50 percent of the votes. The main opposition group the Republican People's Party won nearly 25 percent, and another opposition party the Nationalist Action Party had 13 percent votes, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Erdogan's party received huge support from the pious poor and Muslim middle class because they identify with its conservative values.
"We're totally connected with our hearts to the AKP. It's not about what they do. It's because we love them. They're of us. They're of the people," the paper quoted a voter, as saying.
AKP however fell just short of the 330 seats required to push through constitutional changes that would probably include resolving the country's painful Kurdish problem.
In addition to a solid core of pious Turks who voted for the AKP, voters interviewed in different parts of Istanbul expressed concern about the economy and the issue of resolving the decades-old conflict with ethnic Kurds, who account for a fifth of Turkey's 75 million people. (ANI)
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