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Turks to go to ballot boxes again on November 1st, 6 months after June 7th

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CHP-ON-SECIMFollowing the elections in in June 2015 Turkey will go through another very critical deputy election on November 1st. After elections in June the ruling party headed by PM Davutoğlu was not able to get majority seats in parliament and did not have any other choice but form a coalition government with CHP or MHP.

However refuse by BAHÇELİ of MHP (National Movement Party) Davutoğlu had several meetings and obviously negotiation with Kılıçdaroğlu of CHP (Republican People’s Party) after which the two parties did not reach an agreement basis for several reasons – and certainly strongly influenced by a negative attitude from the Turkish President against such a coalition – and the coalition negotiations between the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition broke down

When all hopes were gone to form a partnership between two parties the president made a decision to call for (re-new as per his expression) the June 7th election which he was not happy with as far as the results were concerned.

Thus the Turkish general election of November 2015 will be held on 1 November 2015 throughout the 85 electoral districts of Turkey to elect 550 members to the Grand National Assembly. It is the 25th general election in the history of the Turkish Republic and will elect the country’s 26th Parliament.

The previous general election held in June 2015 had resulted in a hung parliament, with the AKP falling 18 seats short of a majority.

The election will take place amid security concerns after an escalation of violence predominantly in the south-east of the country. A ceasefire between the government and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fell apart in July after the government authorised airstrikes against both Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants Syria and PKK militants in Northern Iraq. This was in response to a suicide bombing in Suruç, believed to be perpetrated by ISIL, that killed 32 activists on 20 July. The conflict led to over 200 deaths of both civilians and military personnel in three months, with the situation in the mainly Kurdish south-east being described as ‘a worsening bloodshed’.[1][2][3][4] This led to security concerns being raised over whether an election could be peacefully held in the region, while the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) was accused of deliberately sparking the conflict to both win back votes from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and to decrease the turnout in the south-eastern Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)

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