Turkish general election, June

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on May 7 accepted a visit offer made by opposition presidential candidate Muharrem İnce, while rejecting his offer to debate on TV.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce has challenged President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other candidates to take part in a televised debate.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-chair of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has unveiled his plans for pensioners, women and youth if elected president.

Eight were injured after supporters of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) attacked an election campaign booth of the opposition İYİ (Good) Party in Istanbul's Bağcılar district on May 6.

Main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce has vowed he will take "bold and courageous steps" to find a solution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey if he is elected president in the early elections on June 24.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener and Felicity Party (SP) leader Temel Karamollaoğlu have collected the required 100,000 signatures to be a presidential candidate and qualify to run in the presidential elections against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Muharrem İnce and Selahattin Demirtaş. 

The presidential candidate for Turkey's main opposition on May 5 called for the release of Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), challenging President Tayyip Erdoğan to "let us race like men" in next month's snap elections.

Former co-chair of Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) challenged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from behind prison bars and said a fair vote in next month's election was impossible under the state of emergency.

Imprisoned former leader of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş was announced as the party's presidential candidate at simultaneous events in Istanbul and the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on May 4.

Muharrem İnce will be the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate, the party’s group in parliament said on May 4.