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Why Turkey's election results shocked all the experts - Vox

Why Turkey's election results shocked all the experts

Updated by Zack Beauchamp on November 2, 2015, 2:30 p.m. ET @zackbeauchamp

Turkey held a national election Sunday — and the results were shocking. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP won 316 seats in Turkey's parliament, a solid majority. That reverses the AKP's defeat in June's elections, when it lost majority control in the legislature for the first time since it came to power in 2003.

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