Politics

摘要

Turkey's Justice and Development (AK) party won national elections by a surprisingly large margin, taking 317 of 550 seats in parliament and giving it back the majority it lost in previous elections in June. It is a victory for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, who wants to change the constitution to grant himself more powers. In a divisive campaign, the ak government had shut down opposition media and accused the pro-Kurdish hdp party of supporting terrorism. The prime minister of Romania, Victor Ponta, resigned over fraud allegations and popular protests over a nightclub fire. He was charged by the country's powerful anti-corruption authorities with faking documents related to payments from an associate whom he later appointed minister of tourism. The protests that brought him down followed a fire that killed at least 32 people at a nightclub that did not comply with regulations.