2023 elections

The party's İstanbul chair criticized the government for creating an environment of fear and intimidation that emboldens attackers. She called on authorities to take responsibility and bring the perpetrators to justice.

The opposition candidate has urged people "not to be fooled by propaganda."

bianet talked to Selvi Kılıçdaroğlu about the earthquakes, her social media accounts, and their kitchen which many talk about and say "they will be defeated by the hand towel."

The opposition party claims that TRT refused to broadcast Kılıçdaroğlu's election advertisement without providing any explanation.

About 133,000 voters from earthquake-stricken regions have transferred their voting registration to other provinces.

"I moved from preparing for parliamentary representation and political work to preparing for prison," says Sırrı Süreyya Önder, one of the 108 HDP politicians facing aggravated life sentences in the Kobanî trial.

Journalist Seçil Türkkan says that in a period when the people were no longer able to protest on the streets, "the Movement for the Protection of Ballot Boxes has become an unorganized organization, an inactive action, a protest without protest."

BBP President Destici had said that TİP President Erkan Baş was "a leftover from Tito."

One of the attacks was reportedly carried out by minors. Last week, another party office in İstanbul was targeted in a similar attack.

Kılıçdaroğlu, presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance met with Oğan, presidential candidate of the Ancestral Alliance today who made a call yesterday to all four candidates to come together and talk about election safety.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the same election promise as his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and said they will abolish oral interviews for recruitment to public employment.

Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu, who will be running for MP on the AKP list in İstanbul's 3rd electoral district, and his Free Cause Party are opposing Law No. 6284 on eliminating violence against women, while Zengin had recently stood up defending the law.

As the new law could make allied parties compete against each other, not only the parties' voting rates but also how they will participate in the election will determine the outcome. The parties have set up "alliances within alliances" to maximize the number of seats they'll win.

Charged with "insulting the president" and "disrupting the electoral order," Mahir Akkoyun was released after giving a statement to the police.

The party petition submitted to the supreme court states that the requests of the party for the plea date in the closure case to be postponed to a date after the elections were rejected each time and that this attitude of the supreme court was an intervention to free and fair elections.

KONDA researcher Erman Bakırcı replied bianet's questions on what the surveys of the opinion poll company reveal for the coming May 14 elections.

The YSK has released its justified decision regarding the objections against Erdoğan's candidacy for the third time, which has been debated since the country's 2017 switch to a presidential system.

The leader of the Worker's Party of Turkey (TİP) reassured that his party will not cause any loss to the Labor and Freedom Alliance and will not put up candidates at any place where there is the risk of losing an MP due to competing under two separate lists within the alliance.

Imprisoned Kurdish politician Gültan Kışanak wrote an article on the discussions over a "joint list" in the Labor and Freedom Alliance. "It is time to give the correct decision, evaluating all past "if only"s, in order not to say "if only" when the election results are announced.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Muharrem İnce, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Sinan Oğan will compete for the presidency in the 14 May elections.