BBC News with Fiona MacDonald
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term in power and has promised to work with his rivals on a new constitution. He told cheering supporters that he'd focus on
consensus
and negotiation. From Istanbul, Jonathan Head.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan campaigned with
extravagant
promises of new construction and services. That has played well with an electorate whose living standards still
lag far behind
those of most European countries. The main opposition party, the secular CHP, appears to have increased its share of the vote, but not
sufficiently
to threaten Mr Erdogan's AKP. But he has not won the two-thirds super majority of parliamentary seats that would have allowed him to
push through
his plans for a new constitution without putting it to a referendum.
The Syrian army has taken control of the town of Jisr al-Shughour nearly a week after officials said 120 members of the security forces were killed there. Syrian TV said a mass grave had been discovered containing the bodies of dozens of security personnel. A BBC reporter in the town said he was shown a grave with seven bodies. Owen Bennett-Jones reports from the Syrian-Turkish border.
The thousands of people who have fled Syria in recent days abandoned their homes because they feared a massive Syrian army assault, and now that assault has reached the town of Jisr al-Shughour. The Syrian army says it's found a mass grave containing some of the 120 security personnel killed last week. The military says it entered the town