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A picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outside the presidential palace following the second round of presidential elections, Ankara, 28 May 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/NECATI SAVAS

• More than 60 million Turkish citizens are eligible to vote on Sunday in 87 election districts. Turkey's large diaspora of 3.5 million voters already finished voting in diplomatic missions on May 24.
• Voters ready to decide on renewing another five-year mandate for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has been ruling the country for21 years.

Supporters wave flags and banners as Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes an address at the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Ankara early on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE/Necati Savas

The third candidate, nationalist Sinan Ogan, received a surprising 5.2 per cent of the votes.

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.

Türkiye will launch a new and well-planned development campaign if the opposition wins in the elections in May polls, the joint candidate of the Nation Alliance has said, stressing they will create 50 production zones in nine economic regions to secure the continued growth of the country.

An event in October 2020 marking the two-year anniversary of the assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU

Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 when he visited the consulate to arrange his marriage papers.

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaorğlu on Jan. 21 criticized the government over the benefits they provided to the construction industry, saying thousands of people have "suffered so that three contractors in Istanbul do not go bankrupt."

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) spokesperson Faik Öztrak has slammed the Supreme Election Board's (YSK) response to CHP head Kılıçdaroğlu's criticisms about the decision to re-run the Istanbul mayoral elections.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kılıçdaroğlu seems to be ‘open to everything for a principled cooperation in the name of democracy’ to beat President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the presidential election in 2019, according to Sedat Bozkurt, the Ankara bureau chief of Fox Networks Group

Upon an order from the Istanbul Prosecutor's Office, Ankara police on Sept. 15 detained Celal Çelik, a lawyer for the leader of the social democratic main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kıçıldaroğlu.