Turkey's Islamist ruling party loses majority in parliament after 13 years

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wanted his Justice and Development Party (AKP) to win a huge majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, giving him the votes to change the constitution and increase the power of the presidency. Instead, Turkish voters stripped the AKP of its parliamentary majority for the first time since Erdogan won power as prime minister 13 years ago. With 99.9 percent of the votes counted, the AKP won about 41 percent of the vote, according to state-run TRT telev...