[TODAYSZAMAN] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday that his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will appoint deputies to three eastern and southeastern provinces where no ruling party politician managed to get elected to Parliament."Our candidates were elected to Parliament in 78 of 81 provinces; we failed to do so only in three provinces. But we have made a decision; our citizens in these provinces should feel assured and never feel they are not taken care of. We, as the AK Party, are taking care of them," Davutoglu told an AK Party meeting in the western province of Afyonkarahisar.
"We are appointing two deputies each to Tunceli, Sirnak and Hakkari and will consider these deputies as deputies of these provinces," he said.
The AK Party won a landmark victory in Nov. 1 parliamentary election, receiving 49.5 percent of the votes and 317 seats in the 550-seat Parliament.
In all the three provinces where AK Party failed to get any candidate elected, the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) led the polls.