Ruling party loses majority in Turkey elections

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has won Turkey's parliamentary polls, but lost its single-party government,
according to the preliminary results.
The country's pro-Kurdish left-wing Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) crossed the country's unusually high 10 percent electoral threshold that affected the distribution of seats and, consequently, the power of the ruling party.
Official results based on 99.9 percent of votes counted gave the AK Party got 41 percent of Sunday's votes, while the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) scored 25 percent.
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) secured 16.5 percent of the votes, while the HDP won 13 percent.
About 54 million citizens were eligible to vote in the polls, with 86 percent of attendance rate, according to Turkey's semi-official Anatolia news agency.
According to the official projections, the AK Party is set to secure 258 MPs, below the 276 seats necessary to form a single-party government in the 550-seat parliament. The CHP, MHP and HDP are projected to secure 132, 81 and 79 seats respectively.
The AK Party, which currently has 311 seats in parliament, has ruled the country with a single-majority government for the last 13 years.
"Our nation’s decision is final. Respecting this is a responsibility for all political parties," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in a public address from AK Party headquarters in Ankara.
"For long marches, 13 years is a short time. There is much more to do. Our blessed march is to continue … We will evaluate the messages to get from the polls and we will continue walking in our way with further determination," he said.

Aljazeera