Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu hailed Sunday’s election as another victory for the ruling AKP – but with just under 41 percent of the vote, down from over 49 percent in 2011, the result was a major blow. <br /><br /> Former party leader and current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, issued a statement saying the results don’t give a mandate to any single party and must be realistically assessed.<br /><br /> The secular CHP won 25 percent of the vote and the nationalist MHP 16.5 percent. With 13 percent of the vote, the HDP became the first pro-Kurdish party to exceed the 10 percent threshold and enter parliament. <br /><br /> Sunday marked an end to the AKP’s 13-year-long single party rule – and to the seeming invincibility of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The party now faces the challenge of forming a government.<br /><br /> Speaking at his party headquarters following Sunday’s vote, nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli ruled out joining a coalition and laid out the alternatives: <br /><br /> “The first possibility should be a
