Controversies during the Turkish general election, November 2015
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This article is part of a series on the Turkish general election, November 2015 |
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Sunday, 1 November 2015
Opinion polling · Electoral districts · Electoral system · Controversies · Members elected |
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| Solution process · 2015 Suruç bombing · Turkey–ISIL conflict · 2015 PKK rebellion · Operation Martyr Yalçın · Counter-terrorism raids · Syrian refugee crisis · Media censorship · Presidential system · Ankara bombings · Government–Gülen conflict | ||||
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Results
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Party
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Votes
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MPs
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| AKP | 23,681,926 | 49.50% | 317 | |
| CHP | 12,111,812 | 25.32% | 134 | |
| MHP | 5,694,136 | 11.90% | 40 | |
| HDP | 5,148,085 | 10.76% | 59 | |
| Others | 1,204,272 | 2.52% | 0 | |
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Total
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47,840,231 | 100.00% | 550 | |
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Opinion polling · Electoral districts · Electoral system · Controversies · Members elected
Controversies during the Turkish general election of November 2015 mainly centred on the escalating violence in the south-east and the rise in domestic terrorist attacks linked to both the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). International concerns also grew over an increase in media censorship, with the government being accused of specifically targeting news outlets known to be close to the Gülen Movement such as Kanaltürk and Bugün TV. Safety concerns due to the escalating conflict resulted in the government proposing to merge ballot boxes in affected areas and to transport them to safer locations, though the opposition criticised the move as an attempt to decrease the votes of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which polled strongly in the June 2015 general election.
Since late 2012, the Turkish government had conducted peace negotiations with the Kurdish separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant organisation in order to end 40 years of ethnic conflict in the predominantly Kurdish south-east of the country. The negotiations, called the solution process led to a relative ceasefire, though critics have claimed that the ceasefire has led to the PKK becoming stronger and their atrocities have gone unnoticed in an attempt by the government to preserve the solution process.
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