June 2015 Turkish general election

Jailed outlawed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's call for the Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) voters to remain "neutral" in the upcoming Istanbul re-election shows a rivalry between Selahattin Demirtaş, the party's jailed former co-chair, and Öcalan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

Turkey needs a drastic foreign policy change, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on June 18.

It is not possible for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to withdraw its paid military service bill, the party's group deputy chair Bülent Turan said on June 12.

A joint TV interview with the two leading Istanbul mayoral candidates Binali Yıldırım of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ekrem İmamoğlu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is planned for after the Eid al-Fitr holiday, the AKP deputy chair has announced.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu appealed to voters of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), stressing that the president of the country does not remain impartial despite his constitutional obligations.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he sees renewed Istanbul Municipal elections on June 23 as the "realization of national will." He called on the traditional ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) electorate, who did not cast votes in the March 31 elections, to go to the polls on June 23.

Istanbul prosecutors have prepared an indictment accusing the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul provincial chairwoman of insulting the president and terrorist propaganda on Twitter, local media reported on May 23.

After the mayoral election result in Istanbul was cancelled, the June 23 re-run is not being seen as a fresh local election but as a referendum on the future of Turkish democracy.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğu has slammed the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) economic policies on solving Turkey's unemployment problems by saying that the party is "unable to do so."

The Turkish government will exert the utmost effort to deliver targets set for 2023, the centennial of the Turkish Republic, in the areas of democracy and economy "despite continued interventions by some foreign powers," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.