The Presidential Election in Turkey: History and Future Expectations
The Presidential Election in Turkey: History and Future Expectations
Author(s): Ahmet ÖztürkSubject(s): Governance, Electoral systems
Published by: Universität Graz
Keywords: Turkey; presidential election 2014;popular vote; Recep Tayyip Erdogan; AKP;
Summary/Abstract: On 20. January 2012, the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey passed a law concerning new rules and procedure by which Turkey’s future head of state would be elected. According to this law, Turkey’s next head of state was to be elected by popular vote, in lieu of the Parliament, for the first time since Republican Turkey was founded. Based on the official election results, the former Prime Minister and head of the ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected in the first round as the 12th President of the Republic of Turkey for a period of five years, wining more than 52% of the votes on 10. August 2014.1 The other two candidates were Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and Selahattin Demirtaş, who received 38.44% and 9.76% of the votes respectively.
Journal: Contemporary Southeastern Europe
- Issue Year: 1/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 110-118
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English