Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Voting ends at the diplomatic missions abroad on May 9 for Türkiye's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for May 14 at home, while citizens abroad can still cast votes at border gates.

Polling stations were closed in most European countries yesterday. However, voting will continue in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany and Luxembourg until late May 9.

A group attacked Nation Alliance vice presidential candidate and İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's election bus with stones during his rally in the eastern province of Erzurum on May 7, as some of those who attended the rally were injured.

İmamoglu said that a maximum of 300-400 "instigated people" organized the attack, but the police did not interfere with these people.

If Turks oust President Tayyip Erdogan in elections this month it will largely be because of an economic reversal that saw their prosperity, equality and ability to meet basic needs start to tumble midway through his two-decade reign.

Turkey's opposition alliance has vowed to reverse many of  President Tayyip Erdogan's policies if elected in a May 14 election, including a return to a parliamentary democracy and economic orthodoxy, and a major shift in foreign policy.

Stuck in Tayyip Erdogan's shadow throughout his career, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time has come to set Turkey on a new path and roll back much of the legacy of the man who has dominated politics for two decades.

Republican People's Party (CHP) leader and the presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has promised to raise the lowest civil servant salary to 2.5 times the minimum wage if he is elected.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the main challenger trying to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the May 14 presidential election, has raised the issue of demilitarizing Greece's eastern Aegean islands through a campaign video on Twitter, while also criticizing the Erdogan government for doing "nothing" about the matter.

Early in his political career, a devastating earthquake and economic troubles helped propel Recep Tayyip Erdogan to power in Turkey. Two decades later, similar circumstances are putting his leadership at risk.

Türkiye has been polarized, but the country needs to unite again, Nation Alliance presidential candidate and Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on May 3.

"We have to strengthen democracy. We're so divided. We were divided into camps. Türkiye can't take it. We have to be together," he said holding a rally in the Black Sea province of Sinop.

The government has been working hard to carry Türkiye a step forward after bringing the country to the current level with the policy of "work and service," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on May 2.