Turkish leader hails big election victory

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed a big victory for his ruling party in parliamentary elections and demanded the world respect the result.

The ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, secured a stunning victory in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election, sweeping back into single-party rule only five months after losing it.

With all of the ballots counted, the preliminary results showed that the party won more than 49% of the votes. It was projected to get 317 seats in the 550-member parliament, restoring the party’s single-party majority that it had lost in June.