“The press in Turkey has welcomed the success of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in this weekend’s general election.  Mr Erdogan’s party won about 50% of the vote, which was enough to secure him a third term in office, but not sufficient to enable his party to make changes to the constitution.  The main opposition secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), which follows the ideology of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, polled about a quarter of the votes – its best result in more than 30 years.  But the party was still seen by some newspapers as the main election loser. The vote also saw a significant rise in MPs representing the Kurdish minority.  Turkish newspapers were generally supportive of the AKP’s victory, hailing Prime Minister Erdogan’s leadership despite his ultimate failure to win a so-called ‘super-majority’, with some even tipping him as a future president”

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