04.2005 - Source: UK Home Office

General Election 1999 ("Country Report - April 2005") [#31987],  [ID 13155]

"[...]4.8 Europa records that, on 18 April 1999, early elections took place to the 550 seat Grand National Assembly. On the 3 May 1999 President Demirel invited Bulent Ecevit to form a new administration, and on the 28 May 1999 a three party coalition Government composed of the DSP, the MHP and ANAP, was announced. The new Government commanded 351 seats in the Grand National Assembly, and was thus the first since 1995 to command an overall parliamentary majority. [1d] (p1168)
4.9 Keesings Record of World Events of April 1999 reported that the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democracy Party (HADEP) received less than 5 per cent of the vote in the 1999 general election. However, HADEP won control of several municipalities in the southeast, including the regional capital, Diyarbakır in simultaneous local elections. [32a] (p42911)
4.10 Europa reports that in May 2000 Parliament elected as the new President of Turkey Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who previously had been the President of the Constitutional Court. [1d] (p1168)
4.11 Europa also reports that in common with its three Islamic predecessors, the Fazilet Party or Virtue Party was banned by the Constitutional Court on 22 June 2001 on the grounds that the party had become the focus of anti-secular activities in breach of the Constitution. [1d] (p1169) [...]"

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