TURKISH ARMENIANS TO VOTE FOR RULING AKP

PanARMENIAN.Net
13.07.2007 17:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In terms of political parties, 60 percent of Turkish
Armenians will vote for the outgoing Justice and Development Party
(AKP).

In Istanbul’s second electoral region where a lot of people with
Armenian origins reside, they will vote for the independent leftist
candidate professor Baskan Oran, bilingual Turkish Armenian weekly
Agos editor-in-chief Etyen Mahcupyan told Tempo magazine.

He emphasized that Turkish Armenians have always voted for center-right
parties.

"Turkish Armenians will vote for the AKP. According to our reviews
in Istanbul’s second electoral region they will mostly vote for
independent candidate Baskan Oran. But excluding the independent
candidate factor, 60 percent will vote for the AKP," Mahcupyan stated,
adding that the rest of the votes will be split between pro-secular
opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), nationalist Young Party
(GP) founded by the controversial entrepreneur Cem Uzan and the
center-right Democrat Party (DP).