Turkey’s ruling Islamist-rooted party clinched a record landslide in Sunday’s parliamentary polls but was short of the two-thirds majority it needs to amend the constitution, near-complete results showed.
With 99 percent of the votes counted, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was leading with 50 percent of the vote for a third straight win, according to results on television channels.
It was the party’s highest electoral score since it came to power in 2002 but appeared to fall just short of the 367-seat majority in the 550-member parliament it was seeking to unilaterally amend the constitution, the legacy of a 1980 military coup.
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