June 2018 Presidential Election - 24 June 2018

Presidential Elections in Turkey are held every 5 years. Presidential elections are held with a proportional representation system to elect members to the 600-member Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM). The last Presidential election in our country was held on 24 June 2018 and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected President. The 14th Presidential election will be held on May 14, 2023. 4 candidates will compete for the Presidential election on May 14, 2023, and one person from among Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Muharrem İnce, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Sinan Oğan will be elected as the 14th President of Turkey. Presidential Candidates There are 4 candidates in the 14th Presidential election. The candidates will be supported by the political alliances they are affiliated with as well as the political parties they are affiliated with. The People's Alliance will support Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Nation's Alliance and the Labor and Freedom Alliance will support Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and the Ancestral Alliance will support Sinan Ogan. The Chairman of the Country Party, Muharrem İnce, is not in any political alliance. Conditions for Election of the President In order to be elected President in Turkey, there are the conditions to be a Turkish citizen, to complete the age of forty, to have higher education and to be eligible to be elected as a deputy. According to the amendments adopted in the 2007 Turkey constitutional amendment referendum, the presidential candidate must receive the absolute majority of valid votes (at least 50 percent + 1 vote) in order to be elected. If no candidate obtains an absolute majority, a second round is held between the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round, and then the candidate with the absolute majority is elected. "