In a stunning rebuke of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to expand his powers, Turkish voters have stripped his party of its simple majority in parliament, preliminary election results show.

Turkey’s governing party was debating who should be the country’s next prime minister after incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the country’s first popularly elected president in a historic vote.

A roadside bomb attack killed nine people travelling on a minibus today, authorities said, in the latest violence to shake Turkey's turbulent south-east, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy for decades.