Tayyip Erdogan scores a convincing victory

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With 50 percent of the votes counted, Erdogan's AK had 53 percent.

13 June,2011 12:20 am

Initial results showed Turkeys ruling AK Party was on course for a solid victory in Sundays parliamentary election to give Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan a third term, news channels said.With 50 percent of the votes counted, Erdogans AK had 53 percent and was set to win four more years of single-party rule in the nation that straddles Europe, the Middle East and Asia.The party needs 330 seats to have the power to call a referendum on a promised new constitution. Television projected the party would win 331 seats this time, but the count was fluctuating. The count showed the opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) CHP holding 23.6 percent of the vote, and the third largest party, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) with 13 percent, broadcaster Haberturk 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.in the 2007 election the AK, a socially conservative party, took 46.5 percent of the vote, and currently holds 331 seats.