Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The surprise in yesterday's parliamentary elections in Turkey wasn't that the ruling AK party got the most votes. It was the margin of victory far greater than pollsters had predicted. Turkey's president calls it a vote for stability. But NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that many Turks worry this vote could spell more trouble.PETER KENYON, BYLINE: In downtown Istanbul, residents weighed the impact of Sunday's sweeping victory for the party co-founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP. This vote was a rerun of a June parliamentary election that cost the ruling party its majority. The difference this time, Turks say, was that people were scared by the violence tearing through Turkey in recent months - Kurdish militant attacks in the Southeast and suicide bombings blamed on the Islamic State that reached as far as the capital Ankara. Seventy-five-year-old Moharrem Kaikci says Turkey's opposition party should've tried harder
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