Turkey's ruling AKP surprises pundits by winning enough seats for single-party rule

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party,
or AKP, secured a surprise win at the polls Sunday. The
AKP, the socially conservative party of President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan won nearly half the votes to regain its
parliamentary majority .
With nearly all the votes counted, the AKP, led by Prime
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, won 49.41% of the votes
(316 seats), followed by the Republican People's Party
with 25.38% (134 seats), according to preliminary
results released by the semiofficial Anadolu News
Agency.
Polls and pundits had not predicted such a
comprehensive victory for the AKP. In a general election
in June, the party failed to secure enough votes to form
a government.
With the country severely shaken by terror attacks,
waging a renewed conflict with Kurdish militants and
more deeply polarized than before, what will the AKP's
resounding win mean for this pivotal regional power?