Iran, Türkiye officials hold phone call PHOTO

Iran's Chief of General Staff, Maj Gen Mohammad Hossein Bagheri congratulated Turkish National Defence Minister Yasar Güler on the appointment to his new position via a phone call on June 8.

During the talks, Bagheri wished success to the newly appointed minister, Caliber.Az reports per Turkish National Defence Ministry on Twitter.

Millî Savunma Bakanı Yaşar Güler ile İran Genelkurmay Başkanı Tümgeneral Muhammed Hüseyin Bagheri, 8 Haziran 2023 tarihinde bir telefon görüşmesi gerçekleştirdi.

İran Genelkurmay Başkanı Tümgeneral Muhammed Hüseyin Bagheri görüşmede, Millî Savunma Bakanı Yaşar Güler’i yeni… pic.twitter.com/gIUMGLvDwk

— T.C. Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) June 8, 2023

Türkiye went to polls for the parliamentary and presidential vote on May 14, as well as a historic runoff on May 28. Erdoğan has remained Türkiye’s 12th ruling president and become the 13th in the line of elected leaders. The people have directly elected the Turkish president since the constitutional amendment was made in 2007.

The AK Party won 268 seats, the most in Parliament, in May 14 polls, as it entered its third decade in power with the latest victory. In addition to the AK Party, its People’s Alliance partners MHP won 50 seats, and the New Welfare Party (YRP) won five, securing a combined majority of 323 seats out of the total in Parliament.

With 169 deputies, the CHP, along with its coalition partner, the IP, secured a total of 212 seats in Parliament, representing the main opposition Nation’s Alliance. The smaller partners of the CHP-led six-party opposition coalition got almost 40 lawmakers by entering the parliamentary elections under CHP lists.

The Labor and Freedom Alliance won Parliament’s remaining 65 seats, comprised of the YSP with 61 seats and TIP with four.

Of the 36 political parties that competed for parliamentary seats, a total of 15 will be making up Parliament in its new term in five separate groups, but most of their leaders are to be absent from the assembly after failing to be elected as lawmakers.