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Urgent: Turkey's ruling AKP set to win parliamentary elections: TV

Xinhua, June 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is set to win the parliamentary elections on Sunday based on the initial vote count, Turkish NTV news channel reported.

With 65 percent of the votes counted, the AKP won 43.81percent of votes, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) gained 24.26 percent, the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) gained 17.12 percent of the votes while the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) won 10.54 percent.

It will be the AKP's fourth consecutive win in general elections since it came into power in 2002. Enditem