For the first time, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that he will run for a new term in the presidency in the 2028 elections.
At the local organization conference of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Urfa Province, Turkey’s famous singer Ibrahim Tatlises asked Recep Tayyip Erdogan if he would be “present in the coming period for the presidency of the Republic” and the Turkish head of state replied “if you will be, I will be.”
Turkey’s Constitution prohibits a third presidential term. In order for Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be a candidate in the 2028 presidential elections, the Turkish Constitution must either be revised, or early elections must be called.
In order to call early elections, 360 votes of MPs are needed (out of a total of 600 in the Turkish national delegation), a majority that the alliance of the AKP and the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) of the ultra-nationalist Gray Wolves, which supports Erdogan, does not have.
However, MHP leader and half-government partner Devlet Bakhceli said in November that he would favor a revision of the constitution to allow Erdogan to seek a new five-year presidential term.
