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.
General elections were held in Turkey on 7 June 2015 to elect 550 members to the Grand National Assembly. This was the 24th general election in the history of the Turkish Republic,electing the country's 25th Parliament. The result was the first hung parliament since the 1999 general elections. Unsuccessful attempts to form a coalition government resulted in a snap general election being called for November 2015.
Yalçın Akdoğan is a Turkish politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 2014 to 2016. A member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),Akdoğan became a Member of Parliament representing Ankara's first electoral district at the 2011 general election and was re-elected in June 2015.
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).
In the run-up to the Turkish general election of June 2015,many political parties engaged in campaign efforts to increase their vote shares. The main contesting parties were the governing incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Ahmet Davutoğlu,the Republican People's Party (CHP) led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu,the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) led by Devlet Bahçeli and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-led by Selahattin Demirtaşand Figen Yüksekdağ. These four parties are the only parties with a realistic chance of surpassing the 10% parliamentary threshold to gain representation in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Tekin Bingöl is a Turkish politician who serves as the Deputy Leader of the Republican People's Party responsible for political organisation since 8 May 2014. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Ankara's second electoral district since 7 June 2015,elected at the June 2015 general election. He previously served as an MP for Ankara's second electoral district between 2007 and 2011.
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.
İlhan Kesici is a Turkish politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP),who has served as the Member of Parliament for İstanbul's first electoral district since 2015. He previously served as a CHP MP for the same district from 2007 to 2011 and as an MP for Bursa from 1995 to 1999 while he was a member of the Motherland Party (ANAP). In August 2015,he was offered a ministerial position in the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu,which he turned down.
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 İstanbul'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.
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 politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who has served as a parliamentary deputy group leader of the CHP since June 2015,along with Engin Altay and Levent Gök. He is a former pharmacist and has been a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Manisa since the 2011 general election. He is well known for his activism concerning the rights of miners in Manisa Province.
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.
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.
Parliamentary elections were held in Turkey on 24 June 2018 as part of general elections,with presidential elections taking place on the same day. Originally scheduled for 27 October 2019,President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called snap elections on 18 April after months of speculation. With the passage of a series of constitutional amendments in the 2017 referendum,the number of MPs will be increased from the previous 550 to 600. These representatives will be elected by the constituents of the 87 electoral districts of Turkey by party-list proportional representation.
The Nation Alliance,abbreviated as NATION,was an electoral and political alliance in Turkey,made up of six opposition parties to contest the 2023 Turkish general election against its main rival,the People's Alliance. Originally established prior to the country's 2018 general election,the alliance had consisted of four opposition parties across the political spectrum,which had found common ground on withstanding Turkey's newly established presidential system. The alliance dissolved in 1 June 2023 following its decisive defeat in the 2023 elections,after Good Party's announcement that they were no longer a part of it.
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.
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