Presidential elections were held in Turkey on 10 August 2014 in order to elect the 12th President. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected outright with an absolute majority of the vote in the first round,making a scheduled run-off for 24 August unnecessary.
Muharrem İnce is a Turkish physics teacher,school principal,sport executive,and politician. He founded and is leader of the Homeland Party since May 2021. Formerly a four term Republican People's Party MP for Yalova,his hometown,he also served as the CHP's parliamentary group deputy chairman between June 2010 and August 2014.
Mahmut Tanal is a Turkish politician and former lawyer who serves as a Member of Parliament for Şanlıurfa in the Grand National Assembly,formerly representing Istanbul. He is a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP).
Mehmet Akif Hamzaçebi is a Turkish politician and economist who has served as a Member of Parliament for Istanbul's 1st electoral district since 12 June 2011. Previously,he served as an MP for the electoral district of Trabzon between 2002 and 2011. He is a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP) of Turkey,having served as the party's spokesperson on planning and budgetary issues as well as a parliamentary group leader between 2010 and 2015.
Tacettin Bayır is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who currently serves as a Member of Parliament for İzmir's first electoral district since 7 June 2015,first elected in the June 2015 general election. He was formerly a founding member of the now-defunct Social Democracy Party (SODEP) in the early 1980s and later joined the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) before the party merged with the CHP.
Erdoğan Toprak is a Turkish politician and businessman from the Republican People's Party (CHP),who has served as the Member of Parliament for İstanbul's third electoral district since 2011. Having served as the MP for the same district between 1995 and 2002 as a member of the Democratic Left Party (DSP),he served as the Minister of State responsible for Youth and Sports in the coalition government of Bülent Ecevit,before losing his seat at the 2002 general election. Re-elected as an MP in the 2011 general election and again in June 2015,Toprak currently serves as the Deputy Leader of the CHP since 25 December 2010. He was offered,but declined,a ministerial position by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu during the formation of an interim election government in August 2015.
Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP),who has served as the Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since 2015. She previously served as an MP for the same district from 2002 to 2007 and served as an MP for Ankara's second electoral district from 2011 to 2015. She is the granddaughter of İsmet İnönü,the second President of Turkey. Between 2010 and 2011,she served as a Deputy Leader of the CHP. She was offered,but declined,a ministerial position by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu during the formation of an interim election government in August 2015.
Kadri Enis Berberoğlu is a Turkish politician and journalist from the Republican People's Party (CHP),who has served as the Member of Parliament for Istanbul's second electoral district since 2015. Since the 18th CHP Extraordinary Convention of 2014,he has been the Deputy Leader of the party responsible for media relations and communications.
The Republican People's Party election campaign of June 2015 was the election campaign of the Republican People's Party (CHP),the main opposition political party in Turkey. The campaign,which was mainly centred on the slogan Yaşanacak Bir Türkiye,was for the June 2015 general election. Before the election,the CHP had signed a deal with the American election strategy firm Beneson Strategy Group to assist with the campaign.
The 35th Republican People's Party Ordinary Convention took place on 16 and 17 January 2016,having originally been scheduled for 2014. The convention date was pushed back from 2014,when it was supposed to be held two years after the previous in 2012,due to the 18th Extraordinary Convention that was held in September 2014. It w held shortly after the CHP's defeat in the November 2015 general election. The party was expected to see challengers to the leadership of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu,however,Kılıçdaroğlu was re-elected with no other candidate challenging him.
Levent Gök is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who currently serves as one of the three parliamentary group leaders for his party since 22 August 2014. He succeeded Muharrem İnce,who resigned to contest the 18th CHP Extraordinary Convention as a leadership candidate. He has been a Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since the 2011 general election.
Özgür Özel is a Turkish pharmacist and politician who is chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP). He had shared the parliamentary deputy group leadership of the CHP with Engin Altay and Levent Gök between the years 2015 and 2023. He has been an MP for the electoral district of Manisa since the 2011 general election and is well known for his activism concerning the rights of miners in Manisa Province.
Kamil Okyay Sındır is a Turkish politician who was the General Secretary of the Republican People's Party (CHP) between 24 January 2016 and 12 February 2019. He has been a Member of Parliament for İzmir's second electoral district since 7 June 2015,having been elected in the June 2015 general election and re-elected in the November 2015 election. Between 2009 and 2014,he served as the mayor of Bornova,a district in metropolitan İzmir.
BarışKaradeniz is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP),who has served as a Member of parliament for Sinop since 7 June 2015.
Mustafa Tuncer is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP),who served as a Member of Parliament for Amasya from 2015 to 2023. Before entering politics,Tuncer worked as a freelance lawyer.
Presidential elections were held in Turkey on 24 June 2018 as part of the 2018 general election,alongside parliamentary elections on the same day. They were the first presidential elections held after constitutional amendments were approved in a 2017 referendum.
Multiple political parties in Turkey underwent candidate selection processes in the run-up to the 2018 presidential election. Parties represented in the Grand National Assembly were able to field candidates directly by collecting signatures from at least 20 of their Members of Parliament,as were parties who had no representation but won more than 5% in the previous general election. Candidates that did not meet either criterion were required to obtain over 100,000 signatures from Turkish citizens between 4 and 9 May.
The Homeland Party is a political party in Turkey that was founded on 17 May 2021 by Muharrem İnce,the former candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in the 2018 Turkish presidential election.
Nihat Yeşil Turkish politician. He is an MP from Republican People's Party in the 25th,26th and 27th term of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Before being elected as an MP,he worked on restoration and architecture.
Ahmet Akın is a Turkish businessman and politician. He has served as a member of the Turkish parliament for Balıkesir during the 25th,26th,and 27th terms. He is also the deputy chairman responsible for local governments at the Republican People's Party (CHP).
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