Turkey – June 7, the elections with the wrong results
The elections of June 7, 2015 had the effect of a political earthquake. Turkey’s ruling AKP conceded a sharp drop of 9 percent (from 49.9 to 40.9 percent), losing, after 13 years in power the overall majority of seats. It was the first time the ruling party saw a dramatic fall in support. The AKP’s losses seem even more dramatic considering the opposition parties’ underrepresentation in media and the ruling party’s abuse of public resources.
Cengiz Günay
Cengiz Günay is a senior fellow at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP) in Vienna. He is also lecturer at the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna as well as at the Danube University Krems. His fields of expertise encompass the Middle East and Turkey and their related political systems, islamist movements, socio-economic and political transformation processes, foreign policy analysis and EU – Turkey relations.