Analyzing Turkey's election 'earthquake'
Turkey’s election results surprised even the AKP brass, while the MHP and HDP lost considerable ground.
Turkey’s Nov. 1 election results came not as a surprise, but as an earthquake. The entire list of polling companies performed dismally and failed to forecast the results accurately.
But never mind the pollsters. Even the top brass of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which won the election as the single ruling party for the fourth successive term, were not expecting such a mind-boggling victory.
Veteran AKP politician Ali Babacan, who has served as a minister in all AKP governments, said only a few days before, “It doesn’t look very promising for us.”
The Nov. 1 election was expected to have the same outcome as the one held June 7.
