Renewed fighting between Turkey’s security forces and Kurdish rebels has left hundreds of people dead and shattered an already-fragile peace process.
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European Union officials critical of Erdogan’s pre-poll crackdown on Kurdish separatist guerrillas and creeping authoritarianism at home say the clear result should make it easier to work with a fully empowered government rather than wait months for a fractious coalition to form.
Güven said the magazine had designed the cover before the election, thinking Turkey would again elect a coalition government, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
The statement comes as Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept Sunday’s snap elections after losing its 13-year majority in June.
AKP succeeded in clinching almost 49 per cent of the total votes and thus secured more than 300 seats in the 550-seat Turkish Parliament.
However, it fell 14 seats short of the number needed to call a referendum on changing the constitution and increasing the powers of the president, AKP founder Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
There are concerns that the election results would put Turkey on a course that would only serve to further worsen the split between pious conservatives who champion Erdogan as a hero of the working class and the Western-facing secularists who are more cautious about his leadership style and Islamist ideals.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will start the procedure for forming a fresh government.
Hamzaoglu noted that the election results benefits Turkish rates and equities, especially banks.
“I’m horrified. I don’t want to live in this country anymore because I don’t know what is awaiting us”, said Guner Soganci, 26, a waitress in Istanbul.
The main loser of the election is the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP, ) the second leading opposition party, which only scored 12 per cent of the vote.
That worry stems from the prospect of Erdogan – who has ruled Turkey for 13 years as prime minister and, later, as president – gaining still more power.
Goaded and attacked on several fronts in recent months, inside and beyond Turkish borders, the militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or P.K.K., returned to violence, killing two Turkish policemen on July 22.
Demirtas said it was not a “fair election” after his party halted campaigning in the wake of the bombings, believed to have been carried out by the Islamic State (IS) group, that targeted pro-Kurdish activists in Ankara in October.
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Turkey then suffered its deadliest attack in its modern history when more than 100 people were killed as they headed for a peace rally in Ankara.
