The Opposition in Turkey: Erdogan will Lose - and he already knows it

Recep Tayyip Erdogan will lose both his presidency and his majority in parliament on Sunday. The opposition parties united against him and his Justice and Development Party are convinced of this.

The key, however, is that the elections are protected as much as possible - that's why in recent days all opposition parties, even the more marginal ones, have been intensively conducting detailed training on voting security.

This has gathered dozens of supporters of the People's Democratic Party in the tiny premises of the headquarters in Sisli - one of the central districts of Istanbul. They are getting valuable guidance on how to watch for voting irregularities, the key activity that the opposition says will turn Erdogan's loss into a conviction.

Meanwhile, local polling agencies have released data - Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the united opposition's candidacy, is winning against Erdogan. According to some - already in the first round, according to others there will be a runoff. But the polls do not take into account the fact that the third candidate, Muharrem İnce, dropped out of the race a day earlier.

Kerem Dencir is a young political scientist from the Future Party, a creation of former Prime Minister and Erdogan's right-hand man Ahmet Davutolu. He entered politics as a Kemalist activist, but quickly found they were too leftist for his taste and joined Davutolu's men.

He has an even more drastic prediction - the opposition will simply crush the AKP and Erdogan.

"I expect that the National Alliance will have close to 60% of the votes in the presidential elections - and a majority in parliament, from 320 to 350 seats."

That would mean total dominance in Turkey's 600-member Grand National Assembly, or Mejlis.