Turkish general election, 1999
- Turkish general election, 1999
Turkey's 14th general election was held on Sunday April 18, 1999 and was the first election in Turkish history to combine local, council and parliamentary elections on the same day. Bülent Ecevit's Democratic Left Party (DSP), soaring in popularity after the capture of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, emerged as the biggest party and swept the board in most of Turkey's western provinces. It failed, however, to obtain an overall majority, and did not do nearly as well in the eastern provinces.
The second largest party (dubbed "the second winner" by the press the following day) became the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which performed strongly nationwide, producing MPs from nearly all of the country's 81 provinces. The biggest loser was the largest party of the last election, the Virtue Party (FP), which slid back into opposition after shedding forty-seven seats and a million votes. The decline of the Republican People's Party continued, with party this time failing to cross the 10 percent election barrier to enter parliament.
Results
Total votes and seats for each party
Effects
Coalition government
Bülent Ecevit formed the country's latest coalition government, against the FP, with the second-placed MHP and the fourth-placed motherland Party (ANAP) as a junior partner. The DYP was consulted during coalition negotiations, but ended up in opposition. The DSP-MHP-ANAP coalition turned out to be one the most stable in many years, surviving without change until Ecevit's hospitalisation and subsequent refusal to resing in 2002 prompted a wave of resignations from the DSP and an early general election.
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