Turkish general election

Turkey's two main opposition parties on June 29 formally backed a figure known as a devout Muslim to challenge an expected bid for the presidency by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who heads the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). 

The co-chair of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) has denied claims that the party will make an allegiance with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the upcoming presidential elections, speaking on private news channel Habertürk on June 26.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Istanbul deputy Engin Alan, a Balyoz convict who was released from prison last week, has taken his oath at Parliament, almost three years after being elected as a member of Parliament in June 2011.

Turkey's major opposition parties have nominated a single candidate for the upcoming presidential elections by choosing the former chief of an Islamic body.

Once upon a time, before hell broke loose, before Lice went up in arms, before the flag was removed and before Mosul became ISIL territory, there was the debate on the August presidential elections. So I will try to stick to that because it all seems linked together.

Austrian far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday to "stay at home," ahead of a controversial election rally planned in Vienna later this month.

"This is just a propaganda campaign for his Erdoğanistan. I find this
alarming," Freedom Party (FPOe) leader Strache told the daily Oesterreich.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will be in Essen, Germany on June 7 to address Turks residing in Germany and other corners of Europe, to convince them to vote for the candidate that the social democrat party will appoint for the Aug. 10 polls.

Last Sunday, June 1, there were re-elections in Yalova and Ağrı, in which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) lost in both. There are those who present the results of these elections as a general referendum for the government and others who argue these results cannot be magnified to nationwide conclusions.

The establishment of a parliamentary commission to investigate four former Turkish cabinet members of the ruling AKP is given another delay With the procedure for the establishment of a parliamentary commission to investigate four former ministers already delayed due to the failure of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to nominate its members, the Parliamentary Speaker’s Of

If you ask me, the best possible strategy would have been to start the search for a presidential candidate at least one year before, hold primary elections in the provinces for a competition among the candidates and determine the individual after this process. The opposition parties did not do that.