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Summary Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party in 2007 won with 46.5 percent of the vote.
Turkeys ruling AK Party was on course to win a resounding victory in Sundays parliamentary election, having won 56 percent of the vote with 21 percent of the votes counted, according to state rum media.Opinion polls had suggested Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogans AK Party would take between 45 and 50 pct of the vote this time. The centre-left CHP was on 18 percent while the nationalist MHP was on 12 percent, exceeding the 10 percent threshold required for parties to enter parliament, the media said.A Muslim democracy and candidate for the European Union, Turkey has become an economic powerhouse and influential player on the global stage since Erdogans AK Party swept to power in 2002.The prime minister needs more than a simple majority to be certain of pushing through plans for a new constitution to replace one written in 1982, two years after a military coup.
