The impasse that Turkish realpolitik found itself engulfed in following the June 2015 general elections was finally broken on November 1, 2015, when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its position. The last elections held in June 2015 resulted in a hung parliament after the AKP faced the prospects of reaching the end of its 13-year-long rule. Since the AKP lost its majority and none of the other political parties was willing to engage in a coalition partnership, the gridlock tightened. November 1, 2015, will go down in history as a watershed for numerous reasons. This was the first time that repeat elections were held in Turkey at such a short interval of five months and also the first polls under an interim government. The November 2015 election being labelled as a ‘re-run’ of the indecisive June election was the seventh early election in Turkish political history but turned the fortunes for the AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.