 Cemil Çiçek of the AKP became the new parliament speaker of Turkey in the third round of voting on 4 July 2011.Çiçek received 302 votes in the first round voting, while Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) parliamentarian Tunca Toskay received 50 votes.The AKP's second candidate, Zelkif Kazdal, received 23 votes and withdrew his nomination after the first round.