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Added on the 08/06/2015 06:33:30 - Copyright : Reuters EN
Turkish Kurds take to the streets as their party wins enough votes to enter parliament for the first time, while the ruling party is left unable to govern alone after the election. Yiming Woo reports.
A huge crowd of supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate outside the Presidential Palace in Ankara after the incumbent declared victory in a historic runoff election. The vote, cast as being the most important in generations, saw Turkey's longest-serving leader pitted against a powerful opposition alliance. Near-complete results showed him leading secular rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, by four percentage points. IMAGES
Turkish Kurds celebrate Nowruz, the Persian calendar New Year. IMAGES
Kurds in Diyarbakir celebrate the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party success in surpassing the 10 percent threshold and entering parliament as a party for the first time. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
An image of the Turkish flag is projected onto the Erbil citadel ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. IMAGES